Word: economist
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...YORK: After winning the Nobel prize in economics, laureate William Vickrey said he was ready to use the Nobel for a "good bully pulpit," and had a few more books to write. Instead, the 82-year old economist died Thursday night. He was found by a passing motorist unconscious at the wheel of his car about 30 miles north of New York City by a passing motorist, and pronounced DOA at a hospital early today. His 60 year career focused on "asymmetric information," when the parties in a transaction have access to different information. Interested in practical applications, like...
...Crimson's ludicrous accusation that "Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp...," I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Nobel laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, both of whom have endorsed the Dole tax cut plan, aren't credible enough for The Crimson. And perhaps John F. Kennedy '40, who said on September 18, 1963 that "By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance," doesn't meet the Crimson's exacting standards--despite having been a Crimson editor. But what about...
...wage its campaign for the executive branch on the very principle of opposition. What does Bob Dole have to offer America beside himself? Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd. Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp, and so it was he who made a fine selection for a ticket bound to fail alongside its success-proof policies...
Ross Perot has presented himself as even more of a joke this year than he did four years ago. He couldn't even get an elected official in the whole United States to be his vice-presidential running mate, and instead chose a radical and misguided economist named Pat Choate who trades in tariffs and isolationism. The "American Revolution" that Perot launched at Valley Forge makes a mockery of legitimate attempts to forge a third party and offers us nothing but demagoguery...
Podkopaev's had been a truly inspiring story: the aspiring economist was born and raised in a small Ukrainian village, in a house without electricity, and had been hoping to use academics to save his family...