Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of Socialist nationalization. In a brief but explosive White Paper, Churchill proposed to return to private ownership Britain's long-distance trucking business. "A dangerous avenue," muttered the London Times. "Vague and . . . thoroughly reactionary," objected the Manchester Guardian, and "very bad politics." Poorly planned, added the influential Economist...
Thomas Schelling, a Mutual Security Administration economist, egged on by Wallace, turned to the audience and said, "There is a lot of truth in what Mr. Wallace has just said." Schelling further indicated that if the voters want that sort of program. "Let this be known...
...were given an opportunity to attend college in America. Pu entered the University of Michigan in 1939. Majoring in Economics, he was generally judged a willing and able student by his classmates. After his graduation in 1943 he entered Harvard where he worked under the late and famous Harvard Economist Professor Joseph A. Schumpeter, ex-Ceorge F. Paker Professor of Economics. When interviewed, Mrs. Schumpeter remarked that of the three Pu brothers Shou-Shan was by far the brightest, and a very likable and capable person. She continued that he worked very closely with the later professor...
...signed articles The Freeman repeats familiar right-wing opinions "Our Leftist Economic Teaching" by Ludwig Von Mises berates ex-Harvard economist Dr. Paul Sweezey for being too naive a socialist, then criticizes a critic of Sweezey's for being too unmilitant an enemy of socialism. Then Von Mises discusses a sinister, but unnamed, group of people called "progressive intellectuals" (who are also by definition Marxists, Veblenians, and Central Planners). Apparently these people held short-term jobs in Washington and came back to their universities with the "mentality of authoritarianism" and a view of the state as "God-sent guardian...
...construction season, builders got a pleasant surprise. Housing starts were at the rate of 950,000 a year; materials were so plentiful that builders will be able to put up all the houses they can sell. The big question now is: How many can they sell? Said Real Estate Economist Roy Wenzlick, a top expert in the field: "I think the real-estate boom is starting to get tired...