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...socialists--I firmly believe in the mixed economy." For his part, Marglin says he agrees with Smithies's stress on "the historical nature of economic theory and the fact that neo-classical theory is not the pinnacle of economic thought." But he claims that Smithies shares orthodox economists' bias toward marginal improvements that don't call basic assumptions into question--"that perspective divides him pretty fundamentally from most URPE people," he says...
Pipes's failure to discuss the rising proletariat is his most serious omission. In the end, his conservative bias leads him to overlook the savior in Russian history he was looking for. And with this error, it is no wonder that his Russia remained the vast, backward, absolutist country it had been for centuries...
Spartan Regimes. Several observers, including Aron, feel that the general mood of the Continent reflects the bias of many Western European intellectuals against bourgeois society and in favor of the spartan regimes of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. In their eyes, the democratic societies of the West, despite their manifest freedoms, are associated with political corruption, economic crises, imported American tastes (by definition bad) and American values (by definition shallow). In contrast, Communist regimes are identified with social justice, economic security, cultural integrity and a bracing measure of discipline...
Jimmy Breslin shows the bias of a clubhouse politician who understands the fast fix and the low squeeze; still he has nothing but disdain for any high flyer who thinks he can corrupt and deceive a whole nation. Last summer Breslin had the productive and pleasant idea of guzzling and gabbing regularly with a savvy fellow Irishman: Democratic House Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill (TIME cover, Feb. 4, 1974). It is Breslin's theory that those Washington politicians who create around them the "illusion of power" (like "beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished...
...sample group, and he reports that five of the ten studies found conclusive gains for bused blacks over their non-bused peers in a number of skill areas. The remaining studies are of questionable conclusiveness (in each case by Leach's admission) due to lack of controls, sampling bias, and as I pointed out in the case of Ann Arbor, because testing for effects was done too early after the policy change...