Scholar
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A
scholar
accused her of repudiating Enlightenment values and warned of “echoes of 1933” in her speech.
At least two come to mind: Laura Tyson (my former MIT student), who chaired the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton, and Lael Brainard, who is both a superb
scholar
and is now Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
At about the same time, the Chinese
scholar
Yen Fu – whose translations of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Montesquieu were read even by the young Mao – also concluded that filial piety fostered habits of disciplined subordination to authority that could be applied to the factory and the polity.
He was a classical
scholar
of true erudition and a man of principle.
In a new book, The Cost-Benefit Revolution, the American legal
scholar
Cass Sunstein applauds the gradual expansion of reliance on cost-benefit analyses to guide regulatory policy in the United States since the 1980s.
As Stefan Lehne, a visiting
scholar
at Carnegie Europe, recently put it, Europe is undergoing a Copernican revolution.
One scholar, Farzana Afridi, reported in the Journal of Development Economics that the program “improved nutritional intakes by reducing the daily protein deficiency of a primary school student by 100%, the calorie deficiency by almost 30%, and the daily iron deficiency by nearly 10%.”
As the French
scholar
Patrick Weil has shown, laws passed in the United States in the early twentieth century led to at least 140,000 cases of denationalization.
Then there is Zhang Qianfan, a cautious and prudent scholar, who serves as Vice President of the China Constitutional Law Association.
Using primary interviews and secondary data, the University of Minnesota
scholar
concluded that the fund’s reach and impact was being weakened by corruption, vague eligibility criteria, long wait times for loan processing, and an underappreciation of the risks young people take when starting their own business.
"A modern sovereign state, first and foremost, bases itself on the recognition of individual rights and democracy," according to Wang Yi, a liberal
scholar.
One reason is that the “darker nations,” as the international-studies
scholar
Vijay Prashad calls global-South countries, feel greater kinship with China than with the United States and Europe.
In a fascinating new book, revealingly titled When China Rules the World , the British
scholar
and journalist Martin Jacques is unequivocal: if you think China will be integrated smoothly into a liberal, capitalist, and democratic world system, Jacques argues, you are in for a big surprise.
There have been academic experts on Japan, like the acclaimed
scholar
Edwin Reischauer.
Soulless BodiesThe world’s leading
scholar
in artificial intelligence once described people as machines made of meat.
Taiwanese
scholar
Lee Hsiao-feng has recently argued that the concept “Chinese” is a meaningless word that was fabricated to justify rule over minorities.
Japanese
scholar
Yoshihisa Hagiwara argues that since it is not grounded in fact, the nation-state myth is bound to dissolve, giving way to an understanding that we are merely individuals who are part of a global community.
The Group’s report, Arms Control Revisited: Non-proliferation and Denuclearization , elaborated under the chairmanship of Adam D. Rotfeld of Poland and drafted by the British
scholar
Ian Anthony of SIPRI, was based on contributions by security analysts from nuclear powers and Poland, as well as from countries previously in possession of nuclear weapons (South Africa) and post-Soviet countries where they were once stored (Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine).
But, while this theme continues to play well in Washington, no serious
scholar
buys into it, owing to the compelling refutations published in 1992 by Robert Feenstra, the most accomplished trade policy empiricist today, and in 1994 by Stanford’s Paul Romer.
In his 1984 book After Hegemony, the American
scholar
Robert Keohane argued that international cooperation could continue, even without US global dominance.
An American
scholar
reacted angrily when I merely mentioned the word, as if it were an obscenity.
Countries should pursue what the great international-relations
scholar
Hedley Bull called “purposes beyond ourselves”: our common humanity demands no less.
Complicating matters even more is what US
scholar
Kenneth Lieberthal and Wang Jisi, the dean of international studies at Peking University, called in a recent paper for the Brookings Institution “strategic distrust.”
Robert Putnam, the leading
scholar
of America’s declining sense of community, has found that TV viewing is the central explanation of the decline of “social capital,” the trust that binds communities together.
Under the leadership of Yash Pal Ghai, a renowned Kenyan legal
scholar
whose international resumé includes helping countries like Afghanistan write their constitutions, the Kenyan National Constitution Conference commenced.
Although proponents focused solely on the new document, it doesn’t take a legal
scholar
to notice that there were good laws under the old constitution that were never enforced.
We are both Burmese Buddhist monks – a leader of the All Burma Sangha Coalition that led the recent protests, and a
scholar
teaching in the United States.
As Iran
scholar
Mohsen Milani puts it, “With all its serious flaws, it is through this process that changes in Iranian policy and behavior can be expected.”
His comments infuriated London’s provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics
scholar
and author, who shot back that Clooney’s position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
When a distinguished Jewish
scholar
thanked him for what he had done to cultivate Catholic-Jewish relations, he replied: “That was not me, that was Providence,” and then added with his inimitable smile: “And me.”
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