Word: economist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outstanding economic historian and a first-rate applied economist," said Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson, who teaches the department's only course on American economic history. He said Goldin's new book on gender economics "looks like it might be a classic...
...violent swings. "People have to get used to the idea that at certain points 5% to 10% declines are possible in today's highly automated markets," says John Phelan, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Yet even some Wall Street insiders have had misgivings. Warns Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities: "A 7% drop in the Dow Jones index is destabilizing to individual investors, and we need them in the market, not just the program-trading boys...
Gorbachev singled out an unscientific poll rating the popularity of leading Supreme Soviet Deputies that had appeared two weeks ago in Argumenty i Fakty. The four top scorers, based on 15,000 pieces of reader mail, were physicist Andrei Sakharov, economist Gavril Popov, Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev (no kin to Victor) -- every one a member of the Interregional Group A&F, which was founded by Starkov in 1978. It has grown to the astonishing circulation of 26 million, specializes in service features and has published other reader polls. It has thrived on controversy in the past, publishing glasnost-enlightened...
...there are the journalists. With benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Newsweek pictured a victorious Noriega on last week's cover under the telling caption "Amateur Hour." The London Economist called the episode Bush's "Bay of Piglets." In a lonely (and uncharacteristic) defense of Bush, The New York Times said, "Mr. Bush may have had good reason to temporize his backing of the Panamanian coup plotters...
...that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to choose many older economists whose work could not be recognized when it was first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened in the past five years." But when such awards...