Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher-polluting coal. The most chilling aspect of an oil embargo-literally-is that the U.S. might be unable to stay warm this winter. The Interior Department figures that the nation will have to import 650,000 bbl. of heating oil a day to supply adequate heat, but Economist Lawrence Goldstein of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation fears that other countries will sell only 350,000 bbl. a day. White House Aide Melvin Laird offers this advice: "I'd buy a sweater...
...would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). -Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born economist best known for his ardent championship of the autonomy of the marketplace and his suspicion of government intervention in the economy; in New York...
While most of Leontief's colleagues praised the 67-year-old economist for his economic inventiveness, one Harvard economist was more impressed with Leontief's "wonderful success at resisting the conservative tendencies of our trade...
Leontief demonstrated his independence when he and Kenneth J. Arrow, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner, joined a tiny minority in the Department in support of tenure for radical economist Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics...
...economist Paul A. Samuelson, who received the prize in 1970, jokingly told newsmen the presence of four Nobel medals for Economics in Cambridge was enough to warrant an anti-trust suit...