Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear, attract the eternal student"), but in that time, they are confronted by a course of studies duplicated nowhere else. Its purpose, says Brugmans, is to expose the student to a new attitude and a whole new field: "Europology." Under such teachers as Jan Tinbergen, The Netherlands' top economist, Walter Hoffmann, director of the Institute of Economic and Social Studies at the Westphalian State University of Munster, Paul Guggenheim, professor of public international law at Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies, and British Historian John Bowie, each student concentrates on three out of eight broad subjects offered...
...first there were reactions against the new liberalism, such as it was. At Harvard the most notable revolt occurred in 1920. A European liberal was causing a stir in Cambridge. Harold J. Laski, later famed as an economist at London University's School of Economics, and then a tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics here, caused the Lampoon to depart from its humorous ways. In its own words, the Lampoon "dipped its pen in vitriol," and castigated Mr. Laski, dedicating a whole issue to the radical who had advocated anarchy in a Boston Milk Strike. From cover...
...home, the Eden government plans to keep the welfare state and maintain full employment. "Any economist who talks of pools of unemployment should be thrown in and made to swim in one," says Chancellor Butler flatly. But Eden and Butler both expect to pay more attention to "Tory democracy," meaning tax cuts to stimulate investment, slum clearance by private builders, better roads and railroads...
...spate of encomium, Churchill was compared with everything, from an endless cavalry charge to Leonardo da Vinci. As everyone tried his best to rise to the occasion-tempted, no doubt, by a wish to be as eloquent as Winston Churchill himself would have been-the London Economist was at last moved to remark that "Sir Winston Churchill is not dead. He has merely retired from the office of Prime Minister . . . The time has fortunately not yet come to write his obituary...
...place of additional testimony, Galbraith submitted a six-page statement which was placed in the Committee's record at a secret executive session March 31. The University economist had previously demanded that he be allowed to testify further, but he said last night he had "yielded to the suggestion of a supplementary report...