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4, 2001
Volume 11, Number 4
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Contents
The Shaping of Higher Education in the United
States and New England by Claudia Goldin and
Lawrence F. Katz
The past is prelude in the evolution of our system of
private and public colleges and universities.
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A (Mild) Defense of Luxury by James
B. Twitchell
Our modern culture based on mass luxury is superficial,
transitory, and blatently unnecessary. But it's also
passionate and imaginative, and increasingly a source
of our common bonds.
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The Geography of Life's Chances by
Miriam Wasserman
Two programs that helped people move from high- to lower-poverty
neighborhoods can tell us something about the importance
of surroundings.
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Perspective by Joanna
Stavins
Consumers and banks have been slow to move from
paper checks to electronic forms of payment — and
the delay is costly.
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Observations
Why grocers like to sell store brands; countries that
depend on remittances from workers abroad seek to strengthen
those ties
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Letter from Providence, Rhode Island
by Carrie Conaway
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