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...rare capacity to think analytically like an economist but go beyond economists' frequent assumptions--for example, that people act primarily from self-interested motives," says Adams Professor Jane J. Mansbridge, at the Kennedy School...
...Considering today's speech, it is only natural to think of how Sen compares to another economist: Alan Greenspan, the chair of the Federal Reserve Board, who spoke last year...
...panel included an economist and a young female founder of a start-up Internet company...
...There are loopholes whereby you can get hired in many districts where there are real shortages," explains Robert Dale Ballou, a University of Massachusetts economist who focuses on the teaching profession. "The unions and the schools of education don't like the loopholes, but they exist because districts need teachers." In New York City, for example, more than 10% of teachers work without a standard license...
...students of the Fed see any sign of dissent from the doves. "In the old days," says economist Kevin Flanagan of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, "there was a debate over who was an influential hawk and who an influential dove." But today, Flanagan notes, any policy disagreements tend to vanish into Greenspan's carefully nurtured consensus. Concurs Fed governor Meyer, who has a reputation as a hawk's hawk on inflation: "Many members will voice some disagreement with the chairman's view in the go-rounds. But many of those will vote with the chairman...