Faculty
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Jason Furman: Capitalism Is Working. It Could Work Better.
On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.
A key to the markets?
Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
Howard Gardner et al. on higher education in the twenty-first century
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
Raw and Red Hot
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
Excerpt from Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers”
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
Replacement of Iberian Men 4,000 Years Ago Raises Fresh Questions
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
Min Jin Lee on Her New Novel and Writing about the Korean Diaspora
“I worry a great deal about how Koreans are perceived,” the author says.
“The Bauhaus and Harvard” exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums
Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard
Wage stagnation: economists look to new explanations
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
Improved gene editing moves ethical questions to the fore
Advances in editing DNA propel consideration of the technology’s use in humans.