With spring semester fast approaching, the time has come to revisit a number of unfortunate but inevitable facts about life at Harvard, ranging from the dreary New England weather to the fact that some of your TFs this semester might not speak understandable English. And new classes mean that, once again, we will all have to spend a sum of cash that could probably feed a small Third World community for a year on textbooks that we'll never look at again once the semester has ended.

Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 has struck again with another op-ed panning the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body—this time in the Huffington Post.

Ben S. Bernanke '75, a Winthrop House economics concentrator, was honored by TIME Magazine as 2009's Person of the Year.

Sixty-one years after his hallmark book “Economics: An Introductory Analysis” was first published, Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, died in his home on Sunday after a brief illness. He was 94.

Evidence pointing to excessive risk-taking by executives at investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers continues to emerge more than a year after the two investment banks collapsed in 2008—this time from a paper released online this weekend by three Harvard Law School affiliates.

After being quoted in a collegiate newspaper that he had “challenged” an economic study penned by two Harvard faculty members, ...

Economic experts pondered whether a more accurate economic health measurement system would have prevented the financial crisis.

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer criticized the federal response to the economic crisis in a lecture yesterday sponsored by Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics, an appearance some media outlets called ironic due to Spitzer’s resignation in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

Like most of the investment community, Harvard’s vaunted economists were hit hard by the recent financial crisis and ensuing downturn.