Word: collectivist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their jobs. But he forgets there already is such a committee, pledged and capable to screen Communists from employment. Its name is the Harvard Corporation, and it consists of seven alumni whose sound economics not even Mr. Robertson would question. He also ignores the fact that professors he calls "collectivist" have always been quite happy to hold their views up for public scrutiny in books and speeches...
...Herbert Hoover. Says he, 23 years later: "I am so immodest as to believe that had we been continued in office we would have quickly overcome the depression and approached economic and social problems from the point of view of correcting marginal abuse and not of inflicting a collectivist economy on the nation...
Buckley's claims of "collectivist" influence in the Yale economics department, are, in Bundy's opinion, the views of "a twisted and ignorant young man whose personal views of economics would have seemed reactionary to Mark Hanna...
...college, Buckley's remained fixed. During his stretch at Yale (he was chairman of the Daily News and an excellent debater) Buckley measured what the college was teaching against what he already believed. Yale generally came out second best; Buckley found his classes and clubs disturbingly secular and collectivist. In "God and Man at Yale" he has drawn on what he remembers of his courses and teachers to try to convince his fellow alumni just how Godless and socialist Yale has become, and what they can do about...
Professor Schumpeter rose above the turmoil of Conservative, Keynesian, and Collectivist viewpoints as few men could do. Instead of attempting compromise he built his own house of economic theory--a theoretical structure that few could assail because few could do battle with it honestly. Often he was a man it was safer to try to ignore. His "Theory of the Business Cycle" was buttressed by some of the most exhaustive research ever attempted in the field of Economics, embracing examples from classic Greek fisheries to Land Grant Railroads. Having trekked over the continent of Europe in a manner that would...