Word: economisters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard to see why many students would rather go on with their studies than go directly into either government or private industry, for the research projects now under way at the post-doctoral level and indeed significant. One Iranian economist, for instance, is investigating the many "fringe benefits" that Iran reaps from foreign oil industries--a project that will be of great use to the other industries and nations involved...
Despite the general gloom over taxes, there were bright spots for some. University of Chicago Economist D. Gale Johnson discussed the case of the U.S. farmer: "Personal income tax does not apply to nonmoney income," and farmers have more nonmoney income, e.g., meat, eggs, vegetables, etc., than any other group...
...design a tax policy that would promote production, full employment and purchasing power. Almost to a man, U.S. businessmen agreed that rising production is sorely hindered by present federal taxes. Though postwar investment in plants and equipment has soared to alltime records, American Cyanamid Co.'s Economist Ralph E. Burgess pointed out that 80% of the cash is to replace worn-out facilities. And mainly the hope for large capital gains in the boom has kept venture capital flowing steadily, said Harvard University Professor J. Keith Butters. "In a time of depression and investor pessimism" present tax laws might...
Some nations have already found out that though the Reds make big trading offers, they are not always able to deliver the goods. The London Economist is convinced that "Russian competition in economic aid may even in time provide some contrasts that will work out to Western advantage...
Novelist (Studs Lonigan) James T. Farrell said it was overbalanced with works by Communist "hatchetmen" and showed "inexcusable sloppiness." Wrote Brown University's Labor Economist Philip Taft: "You deserve a vote of thanks from the Communist Party." Reviewing the bibliography in the New Leader, the I.L.G.W.U.'s Dr. John A. Sessions noted astonishing omissions. Example: the morumentally anti-Communist autobiography of Angelica Balabanoff, onetime first secretary of the Communist International. The bibliography, wrote Sessions, "has no room for the works which have hurt the Communists most...