Word: economists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay for all you promise?" Stung to anger, Hugh Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters chipped in: "We are going to abolish sales tax on such...
Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev's bluster about Russia's strength died in Washington than a sobersided report showed that the Soviet economy lags much farther behind the U.S.'s than any Russian politico cares to admit. The report, written by top British Economist Alec Nove, 42, and published this week by the nongovernmental National Planning Association, puts forth new evidence that the U.S.S.R. has no chance to match the economic level of the U.S. in the foreseeable future. Economist Nove flatly rejects Khrushchev's boast that the Soviets have boosted their industrial output to more than...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Litauer Professor of Political Economy, last night called Professor Slichter "one of the really top economists in the world and probably the leading economist on labor problems in this country." Harris said Slichter was "probably listened to by the average American more than any other living economist...
Although he spends his time helping to manage the world's currencies, Jacobsson is still at heart an oldfashioned, classical economist who believes in free rather than planned economies. Born in 1894 in the village of Tanumon Sweden's west coast, he studied at the University of Uppsala. Says he: "I got my training in economics before 1914-before economics was turned upside down." He also got a lot of it from doing. From 1920 to 1928 he was a League of Nations economics consultant, trying to make the economies of eastern Europe work. After two years...
...plans diverge from those of other workshop-leaders in several important particulars. In the first place, the Riesman group is resolved to draw students of varying interests and aptitudes. Their hope is to bring together (in six workshops, with a total capacity of 48 people) "the physicist and the economist, the astronomer and the humanist, the historian and the classicist." In addition to having this interdisciplinary character, the Riesman workshops will differ from the others in seeking out a variety of intelligence-levels. Whereas most of the tutorial-type workshops will be geared to "exceptional students," Riesman stresses that...