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...that need be said here is that distributional weights, as commonly understood in out professional literature, simply do not enter these dimensions.... In the end, then, we cannot condemn as crass or unfeeling the idea our profession's moving towards-a consensus based on the traditional criterion of efficiency. (Journal of Political; Economy, April...
Harberger goes on the Blind faith, belied by reality, that pursuit of the "efficiency criterion" will somehow produce national prosperity and political liberty. His students know better. Pablo Barona, president of the Central Bank of Chile, said the fact that "more than 90 per cent of the people are against our policies is proof that the model is working" (The New York Times, December...
Bayat said yesterday the History Department's criteria are "inflated." Wallace T. MacCaffrey, department chairman, said yesterday the criterion for promotion to associate professor at Harvard is "to be tenurable at a major American university...
Since 1927, when TIME selected Charles Lindbergh as its first Man of the Year, the basic criterion has remained the same: the distinction goes to the person or group who, as it was stated on this page in 1943, "has done the most to change the news, for better or for worse." There have been designees very plainly in the latter category-Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939)-but selection has never necessarily connoted either the magazine's, or the world's, approval of the subject. Thus the editors had little difficulty naming Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, intransigent leader...
...Conservative Party's junior shadow defense minister, the disclosure raised questions. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher squelched them by informing the Commons: "I am satisfied there has been no breach of security in the public service." Was Churchill's political career imperiled? Said another M.P.: "If the criterion for this place is that you haven't committed any infidelity, then there would be a hell of a lot of by-elections...