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Economist Eric Verhoogen was quoted in a feature for Philly.com examining the community impact of the sneaker start-up Patos, which sustainably sources artisan-made footwear produced in Peru.

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 Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.

Throughout my life, politics and political science have been intertwined. I handed out leaflets for Adlai Stevenson at age 12, participated in protests at Oberlin and Berkeley, and, as I developed professional expertise, worked with national security agencies. Conflict has been a continuing interest, particularly whether situations are best analyzed as a security dilemma or aggression. In exploring this question, I was drawn into both political psychology and signaling, although the two are very different.

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The ACLS Digital Extension Grant program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will help advance the digital transformation of humanities scholarship by extending the reach of existing digital projects to new communities of users and by adding diversity to the digital record.