Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process could begin as early as this month or as late as October. "Once we get started, we will have a lot of bounce-back," predicts Okun. "By the fourth quarter, I am willing to bet we will see very strong gains." William Tongue, a University of Illinois economist, expects the recovery to take the shape...
...Crimson's advice to base a judgment of Communist intentions on "statements and actions" is well-taken; one may refer-to the Vietcong assassination lists, the mass murders in Hue in 1968, the thousands of executions associated with rural collectivization of the north (50,000 - 250,000 killed. The Economist April...
Special Facts. Underlying much of the argument is the question of whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Most experts feel there are no reliable studies on which to base an answer. Now criminal-justice circles are abuzz with word that in a soon to be published study, Economist Isaac Ehrlich of the University of Chicago claims to have proved the existence of a deterrent effect by a statistical analysis of figures from 1933 to 1969. (The last execution...
...fears mount and the desperation of world leaders grows, Professor Roger Revelle calculates that the world can produce enough food for 38 to 48 billion people; and the London Economist points out that "if the arable land of our planet were cultivated as efficiently as farms in Holland, the planet could feed 67 billion people." Clearly, in the words of Edgar Owens, of the Agency for International Development, "the world is not yet confronted with the Malthusian apocalypse...
...book has been praised by Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Sociologist (and Socialist) Michael Harrington and other academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...