Word: economists
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...Visiting Committee also questioned the effectiveness and breadth of a department that has only one "radical" economist that has only one "radical" economist on its faculty, and described the relationship between students and faculty as "hostile and distrusting...
...Noble Prize-winning economist quoted Albert O. Hirschman, former Littauer Professor of Political Economy, who left Harvard last spring to take a post at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton...
...comparison with the cannonade of criticism that Ford's energy proposals have provoked. The tax on oil will be particularly inflationary in the chilly Northeast, which burns a considerable amount of oil, much of it imported. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis calls the tax "disastrous." Adds James Howell, the chief economist of the First National Bank of Boston: "We in New England are being screwed by the President's program...
...Economist Walter Heller asserts that "a $16 billion stimulus is a shot in the arm, but if we really want to reverse things, let's mainline it." Heller urges a net tax cut of $20 billion to $25 billion. He notes that "even if recovery started next fall and proceeded at a sustained 6% annual growth rate in real gross national product, it would not bring us back even to 6% unemployment before late...
When the Navy's plans became clear, a group of local conservationists formed an organization called Concerned About Trident to preserve the canal. After construction of the base began last October, they joined with two summer residents (one is Economist Walter Heller, a presidential adviser in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations) and several environmental groups and went to court. Their attorney, David Sive, who is one of the U.S.'s leading environmental lawyers, focused on what he felt was the weak point in the Navy's justification for the base: it had not filed a proper environmental...