The Joint Center for Economics brings a quantitative approach to economic history.
In May 1968, the university’s students wanted to change the world. Left-thinking ideologies like Maoism and socialism were in their minds, and “Vietnam” was on their lips. They went on strike, skipping classes and exams. They rioted and clashed with police. One student was killed, 900 arrested.
If this sounds like a scene from Kent State, where student demonstrators were killed two years later, that is because the May 1968 unrest at the University of Dakar in Senegal was part of the same general mood around the world that moved students to protest, says Omar Gueye, professor of history at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Gueye spent six months at Harvard during the 2013-14 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH), a program premised on the belief that events like these not unlike the seemingly contagious uprisings of the Arab Spring can
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When President Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Act into law in 1924, he drained the well-spring of American ingenuity. The new policy sought to restore the ethnic homogeneity of 1890 America by tightening the 1921 immigration quotas. As a result, immigration from eastern Europe and Italy plummeted, and Asian immigrants were banned. Assessing the law’s impact, the economists Petra Moser and Shmuel San show how this steep and selective cut in immigration stymied U.S. innovation across a swath of scientific fields, including radio waves, radiation and polymers all fields in which Eastern European immigrants had made contributions prior to 1924. Not only did patenting drop by two-t
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A great songwriter once asked us to imagine a world without countries. Could our societies ever willingly eliminate their borders and come together as one?
All evidence indicates the dreamer John Lennon had been imagining the unattainable. Certainly, among other species, fusion of healthy societies is vanishingly rare. Chimpanzee societies, called communities, exemplify this: the only “mergers” strain that word’s meaning. Primatologist Frans de Waal tells me that captive chimps from different sources can be integrated into one community, but such a merger is a nightmare for zookeepers that requires months of careful introductions, with bloody skirmishes along the way. Meanwhile, the bonobo, an easygoing relative of the more xenophobic chimp, has an aptitude for befriending strangers. That allows individuals who have not met before to forge a new community from scratch with comparatively little fuss. Yet in both apes such arranged societies are arti
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Archaeologist and Curator/Lab Director at AEX Bahamas Maritime Museum Dr Michael Pateman (left) excavates Lucayan skeletal remains on Long Island, as Long Island resident Anthony Maillis assists. (PHOTO: DR WILLIAM KEEGAN)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS On December 23, a team of international researchers including Bahamian co-authors Dr Michael Pateman and Dr Tanya Simms published a new study revealing details on how the islands of the Caribbean were originally settled.
Archaeologist and Curator/Lab Director at AEX Bahamas Maritime Museum Dr Michael Pateman.
Population Geneticist and Assistant Professor at the University of The Bahamas‘ Department of Chemistry and Life Sciences Dr Tanya Simms.