Harvard Economists - Anti-War Activism Leads to Increase in Terrorism

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FYI, Harvard's Economics department is pretty uniformly reviled by other faculty, not least because of the tawdry Andrei Schleifer/Larry Summers affair (not a sexual affair thank god).  There is a (correct) perception that the Econ department is populated by a bunch of tools and apparatchiks as opposed to real scholars.  This new study should help dispel that myth, of course... :)

Study Links Terror, Anti-War Rhetoric

Public dissent in the United States has caused increased attacks against civilians and American soldiers in Iraq, according to a recent study by two Harvard economists.