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...would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down the principal on loans floated by corrupt and sometimes long-gone governments. "We have squeezed these countries to the point where their health systems are absolutely unable to function," says Jeffrey Sachs, the Harvard economist who negotiated a debt-relief package for Bolivia in 1986. "Education systems are broken down, and there's a lot of death associated with the collapse of public health and the lack of access to medicine. I don't think any American wants that...
...would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down the principal on loans floated by corrupt and sometimes long-gone governments. "We have squeezed these countries to the point where their health systems are absolutely unable to function," says Jeffrey Sachs, the Harvard economist who negotiated a debt-relief package for Bolivia in 1986. "Education systems are broken down, and there's a lot of death associated with the collapse of public health and the lack of access to medicine. I don't think any American wants that...
Many professors and administrators have speculated that the next dean will be a humanist, to ensure academic balance in an administration led by Summers, an economist, and Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neuroscientist. But committee members said the search is wide-open, looking for well-roundedness and leadership qualities across disciplines...
...used artificially high steel prices as an invitation to pocket more in profits, pay and benefits than their competitors abroad--or their customers at home--have done. "Between 1972 and 1981, when import controls were severe, steel wages rose 179% while productivity declined," Goodrich and Gary Hufbauer, also an economist with the Institute for International Economics, wrote in a policy brief last month...
...high-tech companies don't have our revenues per employee," says Fred Warner, investor-relations manager at Steel Dynamics. And analysts say the minis' market share would probably rise even faster if imports were curtailed. "The minis will expand again with higher prices," says Robert Crandall, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Over time they will take over most product lines...