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Beyond Paris: Building a Practical Climate Coalition
Aluminum, steel, and concrete are some of the most carbon-intensive industries, and many countries already have a tax on them. But not the United States. That fact hasn’t stopped the social scientists in the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Climate Policy from spearheading worldwide cooperation on carbon pricing.
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Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
Time in Longevity Biotechnology: Quantifying the Good Life and Reconfiguring the Social Order
Speaker: Oliwia Mandrela, PhD Candidate in Sociology; Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
Seminar in Economic Development
Scaling Care, Saving Lives: Evidence from an Iterative Trial in Uganda
Speaker: Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Carl Bennet & Marianne Marcua and Wallenberg Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.
Seminar in International Economics
Quantifying the Sensitivity of Quantitative Trade Models
Speaker: Ed Wiles, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.