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...Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, will become the first Faculty member to serve on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The 36-year old expert on price-wage relationships was nominated by President Johnson Saturday...
...Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, said yesterday he was one of the minority on the Committee who had favored stiffening somewhat the requirements for CLGS. He suggested substituting an over-all minimum grade average for the present requirements of at least 11 1/2 B- grades...
...growth of CLGS degrees, from 50 three years ago to 150 last year, makes it advisable for the Faculty to lok at the program in a new light, Eckstein asserted. "What was once a small program is now a wholly new program based purely on course grades, without the tutorial and independent study that are important in other honors programs," he said...
...only way changes might be made in the program this year is for one or more dissatisfied departments to make an independent motion of the Faculty. Eckstein said he had no plans at this time to introduce such a motion, and Brooks doubted that one would come before the Faculty this spring...
Harvard economists contributing to the project include Richard P. Caves on industrial organization, Robert Dorfman on price theory, John T. Dunlop on labor, James S. Dussenberry on money and credit, Eckstein on public finance, and Gill...