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How Eco-minded Economists are Saving the Planet
Adjunct professor Gernot Wagner published But Will the Planet Notice? He writes: "In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics."
Read an interview with Professor Wagner from the Environmental Defense Fund, where he serves as a staff economist, or watch a video interview on the EU carbon tax.
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SIPA Immigration Expert Appointed to National Park Service Panel
Professor Rodolfo de la Garza has been appointed to the American Latino Scholars Expert Panel of the National Park System Advisory Board. The panel will advise the National Park System on a study that will investigate the stories, places, and people of Latino heritage that are worthy of preservation and interpretation.
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT |
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Apples or Angels? Confessions of Cognitive Dissonance in a Modern Jungle
Apryl Gibson (MIA '12) writes at The Morningside Post, SIPA's student-run blog: "If I buy an iPhone, I'll destroy my best friend. Let me revise: If I buy an iPhone, I will abet a system that exploits my best friend."
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ALUMNI |
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Democratic Speed Bumps in Latin America
Alumnus Taylor Dibbert (MIA '11) writes at Foreign Policy in Focus: "In all but three Latin American countries, fewer people than last year believe that democracy is preferable to any other type of government. In the cases of Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, the drop in support for democracy is significant."
In 2011, Dibbert published Fiesta of Sunset: The Peace Corps, Guatemala and a Search for Truth.
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MULTIMEDIA |
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Two Sudans: For Better or For Worse?
A conference at SIPA discusses the building tensions between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan.
"For better or for worse has the connotations of marriage," said Professor Dirk Salomons, who opened the event. "I am not sure if we have a happy union or not... Will conflict trump peace building? Will this marriage hold?"
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IN THE NEWS |
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Analysis and Commentary from SIPA Faculty
Irene Finel-Honigman on Standard and Poor's downgrade of euro-area sovereign debt ratings, Bloomberg »
Gary Sick: Can covert actions stop Iran's nuclear program?
Charlie Rose »
Richard K. Betts says military spending should not be a welfare program, Houston Chronicle »
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