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...Rodrik said that, in addition to being a talented economist, Velasco is a gifted novelist. Velasco has published two Spanish-language novels—“Vox Populi,” in 1995, and “Lugares Comunes...
...Other current FAS administrators could also be contenders, and one of them, Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87, an economist, has strong ties to Summers dating back two decades...
...DIED. JOHN COWPERTHWAITE, 90, Hong Kong's hard-nosed financial secretary from 1961-1971; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A disciple of 18th century economist Adam Smith, Cowperthwaite reduced the government's role in the economic affairs of the then-British colony, eliminating tariffs, lowering income tax to a maximum of 15% and slashing bureaucratic red tape. Hong Kong flourished under this policy of what he called "positive non-intervention," leading economist Milton Friedman to hail him as the embodiment of laissez-faire economics. "I did very little," Cowperthwaite said of his part in Hong Kong's prosperity...
...financial security--particularly in the bulging boomer generation whose oldest members are entering their 60s. Canada's center-left political parties have taken note of the trend: the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto left even the New Democrats scrambling to articulate a tough-on-crime policy. Jason Clemens, an economist at the conservative Fraser Institute, predicts that Harper will have little trouble passing his populist legislative agenda, which includes, among other things, the proposed sales-tax cuts and direct child-care payments of C$1,200 to families for each child under age 6. If, as expected, the polls turn...
ELECTED. STEPHEN HARPER, 46, economist and leader of the Conservative Party of Canada; as the nation's 22nd Prime Minister, ending the 13-year rule of the Liberal Party; in Ottawa. Harper, with his wife and children on election night, above, moderated his reputation as a humorless right-winger, joking on the campaign trail about his lack of charisma. He made ethics in government a plank in his platform, capitalizing on voter exhaustion with incumbent Paul Martin's scandal-ridden Liberals. But because the Conservatives failed to win a House of Commons majority, Harper's government, which is expected...