Word: economists
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...Patricia Roberts Harris, a Washington attorney, who could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility...
...Restraints. A pragmatic, neo-Keynesian economist. Schultze favors a temporary tax cut of undetermined size to stimulate the economy and help reduce unemployment. Unlike the present head of the CEA. Alan Greenspan, Schultze thinks it is socially disastrous to combat inflation by keeping the lid on the economy and keeping unemployment high, says fellow Economist Arthur Okun. On the other hand, Schultze, no doctrinaire, fully appreciates the dangers of inflation. It was largely his testimony that brought about the drastic revision of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, which would attack unemployment by making the Government the employer of last resort...
...split] could mean a virtual collapse of the OPEC price structure." Others more cautiously warned that OPEC could eventually get its act together again by agreeing on the Saudi price, the price of the majority eleven countries, or some level in between. In the opinion of New York Oil Economist Walter Levy, the stage was set for "a test of strength" between Saudi Arabia and its erstwhile OPEC allies...
...Harvard economist and former Labor Secretary who is union leaders' choice to be rehired for that post . . . Age 62 . . . Educated at Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge . . . Has taught at Harvard since 1938; rose to dean of faculty...
...Economist and vice president of Duke University, where she earned Ph.D Age 55 . . . Under consideration for Labor Secretary . . . If chosen, expected to press for such programs as job training for unemployed youth and equal pay and child-care centers for working women . . . Specialist in labor-force demographics and working women . . . Vice president, National Council on the Aging . . . First woman director of New York Stock Exchange, J.C. Penney Co. . . . Also on three other corporate boards...