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Andrew F. Brimmer, Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration and one of the nation's top economists, last week submitted his resignation from his Harvard Business School post effective June...
...Brimmer, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board and a former director of the Du Pont Company, was appointed to the position in 1974 and was to remain until June 30, 1977. But in a statement issued last week, Brimmer said he was leaving to establish an economic and financial consulting firm in Washington, D.C., as an "outgrowth" of some of his outside activities...
...Overseers' Visiting Committee, chaired by Andrew F. Brimmer, Visiting Professor at the Business School, criticized the Economics Department of the GSAS in its 1974 report for its poor student faculty relations and its emphasis on research at the expense of teaching...
However, Griliches said that in retrospect, the effects of the publicity from the Brimmer report "weren't that bad." He cited recent improvements in the Economics Department in the area of mathematical theory and in the new appointments made to the department's faculty...
Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, described the Brimmer report yesterday as "harsh and out of date" and said the number of NSF fellows who came to Harvard's graduate Economics program was "abnormally low" last year because of the publicity from the report...