Word: economists
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Stone, age 27, is likely to be the youngest commissioner in the new administration of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. He now teaches Economics 1301. "The Economics of Security Markets," and works as a vice president and economist at Fairfield and Ellis, a Boston insurance firm...
Rosovsky's statement gave Freeman an advantage over both Roberts and Green: Freeman, as a labor economist, apparently benefited from the anticipated shortage in that field to be caused by the departure of John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor. Dunlop has been appointed Secretary of Labor and awaits confirmation by the Senate...
Seevers, an agricultural economist who joined the council as a staffer in 1970, will become the first chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal agency that will regulate the commodity exchanges. Fellner, a Yale professor emeritus, joined the Council in October 1973 after going on leave from Washington's conservative American Enterprise Institute. He will now return to the institute to continue his research into inflation and productivity...
...both the formation of the Arrow Committee to review curriculum, and the department's pledge to hire a Marxist economist as a junior faculty member, were in response to angry student pressure--mainly among graduate students--following the refusal of Economics to grant tenure to Associate Professor Samuel Bowles in 1972 or any other radical economist, even though the department has had as many as four radical junior faculty members to choose from...
...radical economics at Harvard the Lazonick appointment represents, the credit for it must be taken by the students who have and are demanding a place for Margion economics, and not by the departments, senior faculty, three-quarters of whom have consistently opposed the hiring of a tenured radical economist...