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...Sunday's panel discussion of his economics, Professor Harberger offered an explanation for his involvement with the Chilean government which invites further reflection about the wisdom of offering him an appointment...
...Committee, was investigated by the House Ethics Committee and the Justice Department on charges of financial improprieties as well as keeping his mistress, Elizabeth Ray, on his official payroll. He resigned in September 1976. June 1976. Representative Henry Helstoski, 54, New Jersey Democrat, was indicted for taking bribes from Chilean and Argentine aliens to introduce bills blocking their deportation...
...International Development (HIID), which coordinates Harvard's involvement in development programs around the world. Harberger's involvement in policy making in the repressive military junta of Chile, compromising as it is to the future of HIID, is not the only objection to his appointment. Harberger's participation in Chilean economic decisions is indicative of a viewpoint which ignores considerations of social costs in purporting to analyze the benefits and costs of economic measures. In Harberger's own words, quoted in the New York Times...
...there, perhaps he would never have offered the post in the first place. He would have discovered that many faculty members here who study development will have nothing to do with HIID if Harberger becomes director. And he might have found out that Harberger has indeed consulted for the Chilean government...
...economic model has produced increased misery for the majority of the Chilean population. Real unemployment is estimated between 20 and 30 per cent. [The government distorts these figures by not counting as unemployed those on the Minimum Employment Program, which pays a meager $26 per month.] Inflation continues to undercut the real incomes of working people. Cuts in government support for health, housing, education and social services reduce their social wage...