Word: economists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scanning the latest electrocardiogram readings on the heart of the U.S. economy, Commerce Department Economist Irving Rottenberg quipped: "The optimists are beginning to firm, and the pessimists are beginning to squirm." Items...
Richard T. Gill '48, an economist who devised the College's tutorial-for-all plan, will become Master of Leverett House this summer...
...said that he would remain only "as long as the client is satisfied." Now it was obvious that the client was dissatisfied. And a few days after the confrontation came the inevitable announcement: the President had accepted Hamilton's resignation. Likeliest successor: David E. Bell, 43, sometime Harvard economist, currently director of the Bureau of the Budget...
Jewel Tea Economist William Tongue sums up the mood: "Where we used to have rumbling pessimism, we now have rumbling optimism." The optimism, however, is restrained: stability rather than boom is the general expectation. And stability, though preferable to a recession, is nothing to cheer about in an economy that has not boomed for five years. Says Swift & Co. Chief Economist Willard Arant: "Economists have fallen into the bad habit of thinking that if we stay even, then we aren't in a recession. But when you don't measure up to a growth trend, you are actually...
...report was prepared by a team headed by respected French Economist Pierre Uri. It predicted that over the next decade West Germany's gross national product will grow more slowly than that of any other major Common Market nation save Belgium (whose economy is only one-fifth as big as West Germany's). By 1970, said the Uri group, the average French worker will be producing $4,608 worth of goods and services a year v. $3,905 for the average German...