April 05, 2001

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

The economics of 'creative destruction'
Aghion talks about the power of entrepreneurs
As an idealistic young student in Paris, Philippe Aghion dreamed of making the world a better place, of reducing inequality and environmental damage, and of taking better advantage of technological progress to reduce poverty and illiteracy and increase social well-being. The path he chose to acheive this end was economics, the science of allocating scarce resources to meet human needs.

The Big Picture: Wolfgang Rueckner
Manager of lecture demonstrations
When he was 17 years old, Wolfgang Rueckner did not build a go-cart for the science fair. He decided to build an ion rocket engine instead - the ones that can propel a rocket in the vacuum of space.

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