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Since it was first awarded in 1969 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Prize for economics has gone mostly to denizens of the dismal science's ivory tower. But this year, the $121,000 tax-free prize was awarded to a Russian-born Harvard professor whose theoretical constructs, practical applications of complex statistics and passionate devotion to controversial causes have kept him in the public eye. He is Wassily Leontief, 67, and over the years he has helped formulate or strongly supported proposals for world disarmament, George McGovern's propositions for income redistribution, and even...
...dismiss our threats as a lot of bluff and bluster. It will have to take us seriously." Arabs round the world last week felt that they had finally shed their image as a people who could not and would not fight, an image that had grown out of the dismal defeats at the hands of Israel over the past 25 years. At last, Arabs felt, their sharaf (honor) had been restored. "Even if we lose the war," exulted one Arab, "we have...
However, the situation is far from dismal. Five (or more) firm reform voices on the City Council and an effective city manager could restore hope and progress in this city...
...Other dismal acts of the Segretti team included...
...become that rarest of social critics-a reformer whose new ideas are cheerfully anticipated even by people whose worldly holdings may be swept away if his programs are put into practice. In part that is because Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the 'dismal science ' of economics. As the eternal gadfly of American capitalism, he has also played a considerable role in popularizing once radical economic theory The Affluent Society (1958) predicted an age of private wealth and public impoverishment in the U.S. (a bit more extreme, on both counts, than what...