Word: economisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced, however, with the task of teaching its concentrators some of the methods and techniques of the economist, the department has moved towards increasing utilization of Sophomore and Junior tutorial for this purpose. The analytic material ejected from Ec. 1 has found refuge in Sophomore tutorial, while Ec. 98 (Junior tutorial) although heavily biased towards the empirical is the only course in the Department offering an overall view of the field...
...breakneck driving habits, a platoon of agronomists to start Operation Poté Colé (Pull Together), which is designed to hike farm productivity in once-fertile northern Haiti. Taking up a desk just down the hall from Finance Minister Andre Theard, ICA's Nolle Smith, 70, a Negro economist from Wyoming, has helped cut petty corruption and inefficiency, is now sitting in on talks about a schedule of taxes and customs duties. Cost of the ICA effort in 18 months...
With U.S. consumer debt at a new high, a top Government economist last week issued a stern call for credit caution. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of the President's economic advisory council, told the nation's bankers not to go "overboard" in increasing consumer installment buying. Said Saulnier at the American Bankers Association's annual convention in Miami: "I hope we do not get involved this year or next in a great splurge of consumer expenditure propelled by credit expansion...
...Author, economist, historian, and expert on Russian culture, Karpovich was on the University Faculty until his retirement two years ago. During this time, he served as chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and was active in movements to aid fellow anti-Communist Russian exiles...
Died. Sumner H. Slichter, 67, white-thatched, aggressively independent economist, Lament Professor (1940-59) at Harvard, who tested his academic theories by constant contact with people active in business, labor and government, filled nine books and countless articles with a hard-headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted...