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Professor Harberger told us, as he had told The Crimson earlier, that it was loyalty to a large group of friends, his former students, which took him to Chile after these friends had become important officials of the Pinochet regime. If Professor Harberger's loyalty to his friends is really as great as he claims, then it can be safely inferred that moving from Chicago to Cambridge will not diminish the strength of this feeling. And this means that Harberger's friends will become our friends, whether we like...
...even the Pinochets of the world can be influenced for the better by well-reasoned arguments from advisers of Harberger's stature. Rather let us be concerned more for Harberger's intellectual and personal integrity, his tolerance of differing viewpoints, the ways in which he used his influence in Chile, and in other countries. To me these are the issues which deserve airing and should determine whether a nominee is best qualified to head the HIID. Arthur Mudge Fellow, Center for International Affairs
ARNOLD C. HARBERGER made a name for himself doing cost-benefit analyses of development projects in such far-flung places as Chile and Columbia, Uruguay and Bolivia, Panama and Mexico. He has written dozens of articles and a book, Project Evaluation, which explain how to calculate rationally the pluses and minuses of development projects...
...been for some time the paid flunky of a vicious fascist government which engages in torture, murder even outside its own borders, and wholesale economic immiseration of a large fraction of the people under its control. Harberger's disingenuous attempt to distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile's oppressive economic program...
Three years ago, World Bank President Robert S. McNamara asked Brandt to head a private study on the unsettled and potentially explosive relations between industrialized and developing countries. Joining Brandt were 17 other luminaries, including such former heads of government as Chile's Eduardo Frei, Britain's Edward Heath and Sweden's Olof Palme. Americans on the Brandt commission were Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., and Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Wall Street investment bank of Lehman