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Economists Louis Putterman and David Weil have created a new data set explaining differences in the world’s current per capita gross domestic products (GDPs). They introduce a “World Migration Matrix” showing that inequality among countries can be largely explained by where the ancestors of each country’s people lived some 500 years ago.
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PSTC Associate Director and Associate Professor of Anthropology Daniel J. Smith is the recipient of the 2008 Margaret Mead Award for his book A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent (Princeton University Press, 2006), which examines how ordinary Nigerians cope with - and participate in - corruption in their society.
The Margaret Mead Award, which is given jointly by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, is presented annually to a junior anthropologist whose research helps to make anthropological research meaningful and accessible to a wider audience. Read more here.
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