Word: economists
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Otto Eckstein, 46, economist, from...
Back in the thirties, the paper was much more formal. Well-known Marxist economist Paul M. Sweezy '31 was president in that era, but a glance at the paper during his year will give no clue to his later dedication to socialism...
Thus when Paul M. Sweezy '31, a leading Marxist economist, spoke at Harvard last January, he told of the situation in 1940 when he was ushered out of his position as an economics instructor. "The Economics Department never did me a greater favor," he said. Daniel Ellsberg '52, speaking in Lowell Lecture Hall in 1972, warned students to stay out of the "center of the web," noting that Harvard graduates had almost singlehandedly engineered a decade of death and destruction in Indochina...
...Economist Walter Heller sees some hope that strict enforcement of Phase IV rules will at least hold down price increases. Under those rules, sellers may raise prices only enough to pass on increased costs dollar for dollar; they cannot tack on an additional profit markup. Cost of Living Council Director John T. Dunlop complained to friends last week, however, that he is having difficulty recruiting people to check up on price boosters. Prospective employees apparently believe that the program will be dropped in a few months, leaving them without jobs. Treasury Secretary George Shultz did nothing to discourage such speculation...
...intellectuals. Only last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact that is believed to have contributed to his new troubles...