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...there is little doubt that François Mitterrand will be the real power in France until at least 1986. It is on the basis of his own acts, and not his ideology, that he will be judged. Addressing a word of advice to Americans, L.S.E.'s Dahrendorf cautions: "Don't think that because it is a Socialist government, it must pursue policies unacceptable to the U.S. Hold off and see what they do in practice. If you do that, you may end up finding Mitterrand's France easy to live with." And so might the French people who elected...
...Ralf Dahrendorf, director of the London School of Economics, argues that the welfare state produces what German Sociologist Max Weber called "the iron cage of bureaucratic bondage." He admits that centralization and government activity in the modern economy are inevitable but stresses that in the future the burden of proof for turning over functions to the government must rest "on the centralizers and not the other way around...
...inflation will be excruciatingly difficult. Attitudes toward work and thrift have evolved over decades and can be changed only slowly. The most Important change would be to recognize that immediate consumption must be limited, and that the public needs to save and invest for tomorrow. Says Political Philosopher Dahrendorf: "Some stabilization of expectations
...Italy gave priority to growth. As a consequence, there is no common policy toward energy, inflation or the worsening recession. "The Community is now in transition from its self-invented calendars to the calendars of reality, and it must face the problems of the whole world," says Ralf Dahrendorf, former Common Market Commissioner and now director of the London School of Economics...
Altogether, Dahrendorf should fit his new post well. From the days when the Webbs' friend George Bernard Shaw complained about their "incorrigible spooning over social statistics," the school has proved a lively intellect base for reform. Says Dahrendorf friend, Columbia Historian Fritz Stern "He is by temperament a radical reforner who has at last found a liberal home