Word: economists
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...investors' worries are considerably overdone, however, they are not without foundation. Wall Street justifiably shows more concern than Washington about the Administration's new mercantilism. "We may hang on to the 10% import surcharge longer than we should and touch off a trade war," says Robert Johnson, economist for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, a big brokerage house. "It could lead to a worldwide recession, and that worries me more than anything." Domestically, adds Richard Johnson, president of Dreyfus-Marine Midland Management Corp., the economy is going through "sort of a limbo period." Analysts are still waiting...
Gunnar Myrdal, noted Swedish sociologist and economist, will speak on "How Scientific is Social Science?" at 8 p.m. tonight at Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home began the debate by urging that Britain rejoin Europe (after 413 years, since the English quit Calais), Laborites shouted "No! No! No!" and stabbed their fingers in his direction. To pro-Marketeers, the main point was that, as the London Economist put it, "Europe cannot be fashioned against British interests once Britain is in." The antiMarket speakers said that the cost of joining was too high-in sovereignty yielded to bureaucrats in Brussels, in a threat to the British way of life, and in jobs lost to cheaper continental labor...
...Economist's Talent. Gray-haired but athletic at 50, Rudel has an uncanny ability to get things done, an economist's talent for budget balancing and a gift for inspiring loyalty in colleagues. As a conductor-the job he likes best-Rudel is almost wholly devoid of showy theatricality; yet his taste, musicianship and sense of rhythm are faultless, and he is at home in an unusually wide variety of styles. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "I think he is one of the greatest opera conductors in the world...
John Maynard Keynes wrote that economists should try to be regarded as "humble, competent people, on a level with dentists." Simon Kuznets, who was awarded the $90,000 tax-free Nobel Prize for economics last week, is notable both for his competence and for his humility. Russian-born Kuznets, 70, who retired from a Harvard professorship last July, coined the term "gross national product" and did much to develop it as a gauge of economic performance. His strength has always been in insisting on collection of data, rather than in the construction of abstract theories. John Kenneth Galbraith thinks that...