Word: banfield
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Bell, like Edward Banfield in the article following his, has picked out the problem of the city. The traditional tug-of-war between city and country has been settled for good, and the central question now is "the organization of life within the city itself." Bell's evaluation is concise: the social costs with which New York has paid for each of its new "faces" can only be minimized by central planning. But, as in most cities, master-planning in New York has been a flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell...
...senses no such academic idealism in Edward Banfield's analysis of the "key problem" of the city--the presence of "huge enclaves of the poor" in the central city and old suburbs. In fact, his presentation leaves little room for even qualified optimism. The spread of "pathological culture" generated in the slums is the primary threat to the city, according to Banfield, and prevention of its growth ought to be the first object of city policy. Although it sounds fearsome, just what this diseased culture consists of, and how it spreads remains unclear...
...ideas for a party without ideas. It had modelled itself after the Bow Group, the successful, though unofficial, research group of Britain's Conservative Party. The first thing it did was to meet with professors, not politicians. Otto Eckstein (now of the President's Council of Economic Advisors), Edward Banfield, and Henry Kissinger were three who talked to the group...
...ardent Hum 6-ers assiduously jot down every word of often meaningless lectures, wobbly young students gather at the feet of Professor John Dunlop to learn the latest styles in strikes and collective bargaining (Ec 129). Those interested in Metropolis, Gotham and Megalopolis should stop in to hear Professor Banfield explain "Urban Policy Problems" (Gov 146). Music 1 teaches students the difference between a monotone and a metronome...
Professor Banfield is also the author of Political Influence and The Moral Basis of a Backward Society. His collaborator, Professor Wilson, has written Negro Politics: the Search for Leadership and The Amateur Democrat...