As a graduate student at Harvard, Roubini was an unusual talent, according to his adviser, the Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs. He was as comfortable in the world of arcane mathematics as he was studying political and economic institutions. “It’s a mix of skills that rarely comes packaged ...
Backing his sentiments, the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Columbia University, economist Jeffrey Sachs, says: “Africa can and will rise to growth of 7 percent or more per year consistently in the coming decades. What we will see, is a real acceleration of Af...
Mike Sovern is Columbia through and through earning his BA and Law degrees and teaching there ever since with only one interruption when he started his teaching career at the University of Minnesota Law School for 2 years. When he returned to the Law Faculty, he taught Evidence and Administrati...
But Harvard University’s George Borjas, a Cuban-born specialist in immigration economics, reached very different conclusions. Looking at data for Miami after the boatlift, he concluded that the arrival of the Marielitos led to a large decline in wages for low-skilled local workers. While the ...