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Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen is Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University and Professor of Populations at Columbia University in New York City.
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Bombs, Books, and Bucks
Joel E. Cohen and David Bloom Series: Science and Society 2005-07-07The $82 billion “emergency supplemental” bill to finance American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan leaves the United States spending more money on military power than is needed on a yearly basis to permit every child in the world to receive, within one decade, both primary and secondary education. Clearly, the question is not whether universal education is affordable, but whether America and the world can afford to neglect the political, economic, social, and health benefits of educating the roughly 380 million children around the globe who currently do not attend school. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 39378
