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On Monday, Alberta opened up its COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone aged 12 or older. With kids now eligible, some parents may have questions about whether to vaccinate their children. Currently, only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved in Canada for those between the ages of 12 and 18, while studies are ongoing for younger ages.
Postmedia spoke to Dr. Joan Robinson, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital about vaccine hesitancy and what parents should know about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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It is not every day that a world-renowned economist touches down on Lebanese soil, but it should not surprise that such a formidable economist could deliver a presentation less than 24 hours after arriving in Beirut for the first time in his life. It might be expected that he would start with an exercise in affinity, by saying nice things about this country’s welcoming people and surprising allure. But, it was refreshing to meet an acclaimed economist who not only confesses to being no specialist on the local economy (only a fool would claim to understand the jungle that passes as Lebanon’s economy), but who has real expertise on the issues that matter in developing countries. Executive sat down with Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto Polar on the sidelines of an event organized by Banque BEMO at the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires.
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When Joan Robinson arrived at Cambridge University in 1929, nobody expected her to become one of the most important economists of the 20th century let alone the 21st. She had spent the past three of her nearly 26 years in India, where she lived without professional responsibilities while her husband, Austin, an economist six years her senior, tutored a child maharajah. When Austin returned to Britain to join the Cambridge economics faculty, Joan, who had studied the subject as an undergraduate, felt her own ambitions kindled. But she had entered an environment hostile to women.
For 40 years, economics at Cambridge had been dominated by Alfred Marshall, whose intellectual achievements were rivaled only by his misogyny. He’d married Mary Paley, the first woman to lecture in economics at the university, and then promptly destroyed her career, pulling her book out of print. Marshall, a frustrated Robinson noted, treated his wife as a “housekeeper and a secretary.�
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