Word: economists
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Both studies were based on a detailed analysis of 41 representative private and public campuses (U.S. total: 2,500) by Economist Earl F. Cheit, a Berkeley professor working temporarily this year for the Ford Foundation. He found that most of the colleges had frozen faculty salaries and deferred building maintenance, and that many had made even more extraordinary cuts. For example, New York University sold its University Heights campus. The state college system in Minnesota laid off 168 faculty members. Fisk University abolished its Afro-American institute. St. Louis University closed its schools of dentistry and engineering. In addition, nearly...
...neutral analytic tools, one is then able to delineate one's own political biases by hypothesizing these biases, using the neutral analytic tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective fields--and superbly express their political biases in the context of their respective disciplines. It is imperative for blacks to attempt...
...reducing their responsibilities, which he believes have become overwhelming and unrealistic. The family used to play a major part in the education of the young, he points out. Now, however, both father and mother are often away at work. "The home closes down during the day," notes one economist. Meanwhile, children are seldom hired even for part-time jobs, and the role of the school has been enlarged "to fill the vacuum that changes in the family and workplace created...
...first hint of screened information was suggested by the discrepancy between the Department's official explanations for denying tenure to radical economist Samuel S. Bowles and the minutes of the Department's closed meeting at which the decision was made...
Recent events at the University of Massachusetts have proven him a valuable prophet. The decision at UMass last week to hire Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis and two other radical economists, leaves Harvard with only one lonely radical economist, who is skeptical of what one pioneer can do on a deserted frontier...