Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian-born economist's own words: "It [input-output] is as simple as a cooking recipe. You add the ingredients and the whole things hands together...
...that time, Leontief said he supported the radical economist's bid because he felt the Department should concentrate on the broader social issues in the economics field...
Jose Garcia, professor of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, economist Pablo Rivera, and Ramon Arbona, secretary-general of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (U.S. Zone) will be the featured speakers. "Denuncia un Embeleco," a videotaped collection of interviews with fishermen whose jobs would be affected by the superport will be shown...
...shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus, generally credited to Albert Camus, and Waiting for Godot, which has been claimed for Samuel Beckett. If you don't believe it, he argues, read all three works; the language is identical...
...fascinating upper-middle levels, Ward Just has been able to get his hands on substance that can be worked effectively into fiction. Just's settings are the private office of a moderately important Senator, a routinely luxurious Spring Valley living room, the featureless bachelor apartment of a CIA economist. In these and similar places, a little sex occurs, a little drinking, but the truly important activity is talk...