Word: economists
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Nobel prize-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson said yesterday he signed the petition out of an "interest in having information on the POW's made public...
...Goals. The man in charge of the U.S. military response to the new Russian challenge is James Rodney Schlesinger, 45, who was sworn in as Secretary of Defense last July 2. By profession an economist and military strategist, the tall, pipe-smoking Schlesinger demonstrated deft and tough skills in administration and problem solving in his previous jobs as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (see box page 16). At the Pentagon, he has set two goals for himself: 1) to overcome the legacy of the Viet Nam War, which has left the services...
...state that Professor Coase is "a British economist with no discernible political ax to grind." Maybe so. Nevertheless, I strongly suspect that he isn't a member (or honorary member) of, say, the A.D.A. Economists, including this one, do have political viewpoints...
...suspicion unites extremists and conservatives, consumerists, Congressmen and local government officials. Contends Harvard's Nobel prizewinning Economist Wassily Leontief: "The oil shortage is not simply the result of the Arab embargo, but a gross mismanagement on the part of our oil industry, obviously abetted by our Government." Consumerist Ralph Nader conceded a month ago that there was a shortage, but labeled it "artificial." Now he says he does not think there is any shortage at all. "To this very hour," he asserts, "the industry refuses to disclose its reserves to the Government. If there was a real energy shortage...
...course consists of 20 "lectures," which are printed every Thursday in 258 newspapers, having a combined circulation of 19.5 million. They are written by such prominent "faculty" members as Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, Yale Economist Henry C. Wallich and M.I.T. Physicist Philip Morrison. The articles are all entitled "America and the Future of Man" (the formal name of the course) and cover history, psychology, sociology, social ethics and political science. In last week's installment, for example, Garrett J. Hardin, professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reviewed the ethical and social problems...