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Matt Prewitt '08: Suburban people are people too
By Matt Prewitt | February 25Dear New Brown University Freshman,
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Matt Prewitt '08: Moral uncertainty at Jo's
By Matt Prewitt | February 12The Fair Trade movement, promoted by Brown Dining Services and urban coffee shops everywhere, has been attracting some negative attention recently. In the Dec. 7 issue of the Economist, an article on "ethical foods" suggested that the idea may be misguided. In the intervening months Fair Trade has become ...
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Matt Prewitt '08: Labor goes cyberpunk
By Matt Prewitt | November 26"How many people live on less than a dollar a day? Imagine if they could earn quadruple that, just by performing menial tasks on a computer for a few hours."
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Matt Prewitt '08: Why people gamble
By Matt Prewitt | October 16The hubbub surrounding the proposed Harrahs' casino in Rhode Island got me pondering an old question. Why do people gamble? I'm not talking about friendly bets that merely add excitement to sports games and the Oscars. Why do people gamble at casinos, where every game is stacked against them? Don't ...
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Matt Prewitt '08: What does the left think of the new meritocracy?
By Matt Prewitt | September 26Early in high school, Joe Brunonian decided that he wanted to attend a big-name college. More precisely, he started to think that he deserved to. Despite the fact that he's just a middle class kid, his parents and teachers were very encouraging, and this gave him a sense of entitlement within the meritocracy. ...
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Matt Prewitt '08: Paternalism in sheep's clothing
By Matt Prewitt | March 22In a recent opinions column ("Thomas Friedman can kiss my ass," March 8), Andrew Marantz '06.5 criticized the ideological conflation of economic development with happiness. These two variables, he suggests, can vary independently, and we should therefore temper our "paternalistic" enthusiasm over India's ...
