Word: economists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Learning was founded by J. Vincent Drucker, 31, a marketing-research specialist and son of Peter Drucker, the management consultant, economist and educator. Three years ago, Vincent decided that "teachers, particularly innovative ones, thought of themselves as isolated, as underexposed to new ideas." He managed to raise $1.2 million to begin publication. As editor, he hired Frank McCulloch, 53, a veteran of TIME and LIFE magazines. Says McCulloch: "A child comes to school with certain information, with feelings, with notions about life. It's the teacher's job to make the child more curious -not to treat...
...differences in theoretical outlook reflect conflicting committments concerning the relationship of the economist to the larger power structure. Underlying the theoretical shortcomings of the conventional economics is the definition of the professional role of the economist: as teacher and researcher alike, the economist is seen as developing analytical tools to aid corporate or government decision makers in resource allocation problems...
...when the bulk of American farmers are well enough off financially to make the change without having to endure undue jolts, and when foreign customers are eager to buy more of America's agricultural wealth than ever before. The Administration's willingness to seize that opportunity, says Economist Walter Heller, "represents its best opportunity to go down in history on the economic front as a constructive leadership." The President would be opening a front at a point that most economists, both liberal and conservative, believe is ripe for a Nixonian counterrevolution...
Test Center. This dream city is the brainchild of freewheeling Scientist Athelstan Spilhaus, an oceanographer, physicist and meteorologist. In the eight years since he first got the idea, MXC has drawn support from Twin Cities business leaders, the federal and state governments, and top thinkers like R. Buckminster Fuller, Economist Walter Heller and Urbanologist Harvey Perloff. Their combined efforts are aimed at starting construction...
Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...