Federal Reserve economist Christopher L. Smith found that an in-creased population of lower-skilled immigrants had a bigger negative influence on youth employ-ment than on adult employment Summer jobs can help high school and college students perform better in the classroom, according to recent ...
was asked by the Louvre (where the “Mona Lisa” hangs) to create a digital image of the painting, is the inventor of the multispectral camera: a device that can detect not only the drawing below the surface of an oil painting, but also, where they exist, intermediate layers of work. ...
The author provides an economist's perspective on a set of articles examining the role of sociologists in studying recent trends in inequality in the United States. Three themes underlie his comments. First, effective investigations of empirical questions require a combination of statistics and theory...
In a recent Atlantic essay, Robert Frank, an economist who has studied attitudes to chance, quoted(引用) EB White: “Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”However, if we see this just as a problem of the super-rich people, we may let the rest of...
Sit where I can see you. 坐在我能看到你的地方。 牛津词典 Where people were concerned, his threshold of boredom was low. 涉及人的事情,他便极易感到厌烦。 牛津词典 That's where (= the point in the argument at which) you're wrong. 这就是你的错误所在。 牛津词典 Where did you meet him...
Imnigration(移足) appears to be affecting teen employment as well.Federal Reserve economist Christopher L. Smith found that an increased population of lower skilled immigrants had a bigger negative influence on youth employment than on adult employment.Summer jobs can help high school and college ...
No economist predicted the current planetary crisis even though the world has now undergone five severe recessions primed by dramatic increases in the price of oil. This book presents the results of more than twenty years of work aimed at developing an alternative method of analysis of the ...
Freedom Circle Featured Individual Adam Smith(1723-1790) was aneconomistandphilosopherwho pioneeredpolitical economyand was a key figure during theScottishEnlightenment. Seen by some as the "father of economics" or the "father ofcapitalism", he wrote two classic works,The Theory of Moral Sentiments...
More often than not,they vote against the very policies that helped them get lucky to begin with.In a recent Atlantic essay,Robert Frank,an economist who has studied attitudes to chance,quoted(引用) EB White:" Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." ...
Even without drawing on the “butterfly effect” rationale, the importance of acknowledging, understanding, and tackling the interconnectedness of the health and well-being of all species living on Earth can be hardly overemphasized. Take the current pandemic for instance. While much remains to be ...