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Advanced Microeconomics: Uncertainty
No full textThis is an advanced course in microeconomic theory. The first half of the course focuses on decision making in nonstrategic\ud
(competitive) environments. Topics covered include: (i) consumer and producer theory; (ii) theories of choice under uncertainty, including measures and attitudes towards risk. (iii) applications to insurance and portfolio choice; and (iv) general equilibrium and welfare. The second half of the course introduces strategic interaction. We begin with a formal treatment of game theory, and then\ud
study several applications in the context of asymmetric information. These include signalling and screening as responses to problems of adverse selection, optimal contracting to mitigate moral hazard, and auction theory
“Pas un droit, mais une faveur”: Immigration, Nationalism, and Population in 1920’s France
No full textThe amount of French casualties after World War One forced the Third Republic to recruit foreign labor from Europe and North Africa to replenish the economy. The government created the Société Générale d’Immigration (SGI) in 1924 to recruit workers from Eastern Europe. As thousands of Poles and other Eastern Europeans poured in, in addition to Italians, Spaniards, and North Africans, fears of immigrant assimilation in French society percolated among natives. Tensions grew between the government’s aggressive recruitment processes and the native’s desire to limit entry into France. This thesis explores the recruitment tactics employed by the SGI to lure workers to France in the 1920s and the subsequent tensions surrounding immigration policy. Publications by French eugenicists, doctors of hygiene, and journalists reveal hostility toward the government’s recruitment procedures and the immigrant community. The native’s fears surrounding immigrant assimilation stemmed from ideas of racial hierarchy and diseased immigrants infecting the weakened French population. The tensions of the 1920s reveal France’s struggle to maintain its Republican principles of civic nationalism, universalism, and acceptance during a period of crisis
Introductory Piano
No full textThe purpose of this course is twofold: to develop basic piano skills and\ud
experience music through active participation; to explore the classical piano\ud
repertoire by listening to music of various forms and historical periods
Organizations, Missions, Constraints: Humanitarianism and Human Rights in Practice
No full textDear student,\ud
When I was in college, I took some great classes about human rights. They largely focused on big, theoretical questions that widened my perspective on global justice, but to which I doubted I'd ever personally have an answer. There were other opportunities, such as volunteer work, summer \ud
jobs, and internships, to see the daily realities of social justice work from a particular angle. But it often felt to me as if there was no bridge between these two spaces: challenging discussions about theory, and the daily practice of working for change.\ud
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The premise of this class is that those bridges do exist, but are too often left out of the college curriculum. So in this class we’re going to insert ourselves into places where we can see, learn from, and engage with the processes by which principles and theories are translated into practice. Gaining a sense of all that goes into this process will make you better prepared for the challenges of social justice work and, I hope, more eager to do it (or keep doing it!) yourself.\ud
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The particular focus of this class will be on mission-‐driven organizations as places where principles of social justice are translated into practice. The focus is on humanitarianism and human rights sectors, though as you will soon discover I define those things quite broadly, and include many local, grassroots, educational, and other organizations under those headings. We will read and discuss scholarship about nongovernmental organizations (NGOSs), the history of human rights and humanitarian organizations, specific issues (such as fundraising, technology, and diversity), and the working lives of NGO and aid workers. Some of these sources will be by sympathetic observers, some by insiders, and some by fierce critics. We also have the incredible opportunity to hear directly from a great roster of individuals involved in this sort of work.\ud
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You will choose an organization close to your own heart, and spend much of the semester interviewing practitioners, researching the organization, its evolving mission, and the constraints that shape its work. This may be an organization you already know, one you are just discovering, or one you hope to work for—even compete with!—someday. Welcome! I can't wait to see the bridges you're going to build.\ud
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Yours,\ud
Ada
American Political Process: The Congress
No full textThe main question of this course is simple: what motivates congressional behavior? However, simple questions often have complicated answers and that is certainly true in the case of Congress. To answer our main question, we will explore the importance of elections, the concept of \ud
representativeness, the role of political parties, and a variety of institutional constraints. The course is set up such that we will read scholarly works about Congress interspersed with real- world examples. Our main non-academic book is Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography on \ud
Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate.\ud
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I have three main goals for the semester. First, the course will help you establish a solid foundation for understanding congressional behavior. To accomplish this goal, the course will introduce you to academic theories about how Members of Congress (MOC) think and act. Second, the \ud
course will help you hone your critical thinking and reading skills. In other words, I want you to bolster your ability to carefully interrogate ideas, arguments, and evidence. Finally, this course will give you experience conducting research. As developing scholars (and soon-to- be thesis \ud
writers) it is essential that you learn how to ask and answer questions that are important to you. This course gives you that experience by asking you to complete a semester-long research paper about congressional behavior
Interview with Lawrence C. Davis '66 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 26, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
The Resolution Mine Project of Oak Flat, Arizona: An Analysis of Social and Environmental Impact Assessments
No full textThe proposed Resolution Copper Mine at Oak Flat, Arizona is currently under review by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Tonto National Forest (TNF) in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. The Resolution Project is associated with the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange bill (2014), in which 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest around Oak Flat are set up to be exchanged for 5,200 acres of Rio Tinto Copper Company property. This thesis examines the validity of the methods used by Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto’s subsidiary, to assess the social and environmental impacts of the Resolution Mine, and to determine how Resolution researches the potential environmental and social changes that will occur if the land swap and mine are approved. Resolution’s methods for predicting Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) are specifically examined and in this piece. Similarly, this thesis examines Resolution’s methods of assessing the social impact of the mine and land swap as it is felt by the San Carlos Apache, who consider Oak Flat a sacred site for the female coming of age ceremony, Na’ii’ees. Through literature review and primary research, it was determined that Resolution’s methods of AMD prediction and social assessment are insufficient. The EPA and the TNF are unable to effectively review the social and environmental risks of the Resolution Project with the insufficient social impact assessment and AMD prediction tests used in Resolution’s Baseline Geochemical Analysis. The Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Resolution Mine should not be permitted until improved research is conducted and a more complete impact of these projects can be defined