Word: economists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Protests against Milton Friedman, University of Chicago economist and this year's recipient of the Economics award, interrupted the ceremony. Demonstrators accused Friedman of supporting the right-wing military government in Chile, an accusation he disputes...
Carter, in fact, might name his Treasury Secretary as early as this week. The leading contenders apparently included Economist Charles Schultze, a former Budget director under Johnson; Andrew Brimmer, perhaps the nation's most prominent black economist and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board; and Michael Blumenthal, chairman of the Bendix Corp. and a former deputy assistant Secretary of State. Another possible choice was Irving Shapiro, head of Du Pont...
...Other economists, however, believe guidelines can work. Using econometric models of the 1960s, Williams College Economist John Sheahan concluded that "there was a convincing case that wage behavior in manufacturing became more restrained in the four years [after the establishment of the guideposts] than in the preceding decade." He drew upon independent studies by Harvard's Otto Eckstein and the Brookings Institution's George Perry...
Nobel Prize winning economist Wassily W. Leontief told the Harvard Law School Forum last night that the only hope of saving the world's underdeveloped countries is to reduce increases in defense spending...
...have more justice, but you have more trouble," the Russian born and educated economist told the crowd of about...