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Tina Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, looks at how peer pressure can be turned to good ends. Her cases include anti-smoking campaigns for teenagers, the Serbian student movement that helped topple Milosevic, and AIDS prevention in South Africa.
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
These books are all linked, no pun intended. Tina Rosenberg had a column for The New York Times called “The Fix”, where she looked at how you fix social problems. One of her answers is that you basically harness peer pressure for good. She would use the example of Alcoholics Anonymous, too. If you want to break your addiction you surround yourself with other people who want to do the same and they will support you.
Interview · May 2018
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