Word: economisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia University professor John M. Clark, noted American economist, will analyze the "Ethical Basis for Economic Freedom" in two public lectures Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in the Littauer Lounge. In his first lecture, he will discuss the need for an ethical basis and, in his second, how such a need...
...draft the new plan, Nehru picked Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 62, head of the sprawling Calcutta University Statistical Institute. Cambridge-trained Professor Mahalanobis, a physicist turned economist, has achieved a sensational rise in prestige, stands as close to Nehru on economic matters as Krishna Menon does on foreign affairs. Mahalanobis has stocked the institute's library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist...
When scholarly, kewpie-shaped Geoffrey Crowther took over as editor of the London Economist in 1938, its circulation was a low 10,000 and its influence on British political life was even lower. Under Crowther's sure hand and facile pen, Economist circulation soared to 50,640, and it became Britain's most influential periodical. Nine of every ten Britons who have a hand in major policies read it. About two years ago, Crowther began to spend less time at the Economist, more with his private business (he is a director of five companies-insurance, hotels, etc.). Last...
...replace Editor Crowther the Economist will bring in Donald Tyerman, 47, onetime Economist writer and deputy editor (1937-44). Later, Tyerman joined the London Times, moved up to deputy editor. Like Crowther, Tyerman is a liberal in politics and a conservative in economics; thus the Economist's slightly left-of-center line is unlikely to change. But Crowther will be around to lend a hand if necessary. Says he: "I'm not disinteresting myself in any part of the paper...
Does Fair Trade bring higher or lower prices? Last week, after a year-long study of the question, University of Chicago Economist Ward S. Bowman Jr. reported that Fair Trade tends to raise retail prices. As part of his research, Bowman picked a typical product, toothpaste, and 'checked retail prices all over the nation. Conclusion: in the 40 states that have Fair Trade laws, toothpaste costs 2% more than in free-trading states...