Word: cea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group, after a cursory look at the Yard, visited the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, run jointly by Harvard and M.I.T. Milton S. Livingston, CEA Director, told the newsmen about the expected projects of the Accelerator and showed them through the nearly completed underground oval and complex power station...
...haven't you overemphasized the point of the CEA's consensus? Indeed, broad problems, almost by definition, are usually broadly acknowledged; the differences between the goose and the swan are seen when they attempt to quickly cross the river...
...both a common tendency to "spin speculations by the yard," build up "grand systems like soap bubbles." Mitchell insisted that what economics needed was more facts. To that end he founded, in 1920, New York's National Bureau of Economic Research (now presided over by Arthur Burns, sometime CEA chairman under President Eisenhower...
...Larger Task. President-elect Kennedy's first choice to head up CEA was not Walter Heller but Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Paul Samuelson, most eminent and influential of all U.S. economists. Samuelson declined in the belief that he could have more influence on the outside, recommended Heller for the post. For the other two seats on CEA, Heller chose two university economists much like himself in age and outlook...
...economics at Yale. U.S. economists are fond of making lists of the ten most brilliant U.S. economists, and Tobin always appears on them. A specialist in statistical analysis of economic forces, he is essentially a "scientific" economist with no strong political attachments. When Kennedy asked him to serve on CEA, Tobin said: "Mr. President, you must have the wrong man. I'm a sort of ivory-tower economist." Replied Kennedy: "That's all right. I'm a sort of ivory-tower President...