Month: March 2024

By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, March 21, 2024. A recent working paper charts the surprising politics of zero-sum thinking — or the belief that one individual or group’s gain is another’s loss — with a goal of offering fresh insight into our nation’s schisms. The buzzworthy paper was co-authored by Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes…Continue Reading Why are we so divided? Zero-sum thinking is part of it.

By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, March 14, 2024. A group of real estate developers pitched Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, early last year on the creation of incentives for building more housing in a time of high labor costs and interest rates. Like most coastal cities, Boston is gripped by…Continue Reading Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor