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The administration’s plan to significantly cut the tax rate on so-called pass-through entities will likely lead to creative tax planning and outright evasion, damaging faith in the system.
Conservatives have been very successful framing a compelling narrative about who they are and what they stand for. Progressives will have a tough four years if they don’t do the same.
Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
Nobel Prizes can go to at most three co-recipients. Journal articles, on the other hand, can have thousands of co-authors. Neither extreme is ideal, but how should we credit today’s science work?
The refugee crisis that just arrived in Europe has been affecting Turkey for more than four years.
Universities are places that teach ethics to students. But, on any given day, you can read about several university scandals. Do universities practice what they teach?
Got milk? Or: Just do it. Which is a more effective ad slogan? New consumer research probes how minds respond to questions in advertising ploys.
There are two quiet trends that might very well transform the structure of work in the near future. First, a majority of today’s employees expect to work beyond the traditional retirement age of 65, with…
Three American soldiers* may have died in Afghanistan’s battle of Takur Ghar because of disruptions caused by plasma bubbles – a form of space weather – according to a new study. Space weather is normally…
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College
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Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Boston College
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Adjunct Lecturer in the International Studies Program, Boston College
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Professor of Sociology, Boston College
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Faculty Member (Theology Department), Part-Time, Boston College
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Professor of Law, Boston College, Boston College
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Assistant Professor, Management and Organization Department, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Social Work, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Communication and International Studies, Boston College
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Associate Professor of Communication, Boston College
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Senior Research Scientist, Boston College
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Seidner Family Faculty Fellow Professor of Finance at Carroll School of Management, Boston College
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PhD Candidate/Teaching Fellow in Systematic Theology, Boston College
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Associate Professor in the Finance Department, Boston College
