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Inflation Is New Battle Line as Republicans and Biden Spar Over Spending

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School, was quoted recently in the New York Times:

How will the world respond to the European Union’s proposed carbon border tax?

Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University, was quoted in an article by Marketplace on Monday:

Ira Katznelson Finishes Term as Mary Boyce Becomes Provost

Ira Katznelson is officially stepping down as Interim Provost, after a nearly two-year tenure that saw Columbia through a period of singular challenge and change. He is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History and Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects and will return, full time, to his work as a scholar and teacher. His successor, Columbia Engineering Dean Mary Boyce, begins her term as Provost on July 1, 2021.

Wilmot James, ISERP Senior research Scholar, and Abigail Pyne were published in the Daily Maverick.

Sharing vaccine doses with Africa is not just a moral imperative, it is an act that will protect the G7’s own citizens, economies and health systems. Unicef has proposed that G7 members donate 20% of their available vaccines, which would allow one billion doses to be quickly administered to nations in need, saving thousands of African lives.