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Some skeptics reject the NSF suggestion that American science is on the skids. "The U.S. is still the most productive nation in the world," said Nobel-prize winning Economist Paul A. Samuelson at last week's symposium. A few suspect that the alarm over U.S. scientific performance may be a ploy to win more money for research. Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of a Washington-based newsletter called Science and Government Report, wrote during a similar scare two years ago that "the elders of science are possessed by visions of doom" that can only be exorcised by more...
...computer studies to forecast economic trends. Klein has put together one of the best-organized economic advisory groups of the campaign. It has recently completed work on a comprehensive economic program that Carter will announce this week. Among his other advisers are experts as diverse as Albert Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a business research group, and Carolyn Shaw Bell, a strong advocate of greater progress for women. Also in Carter's advisory group: Lester Thurow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a liberal who had a major hand in formulating McGovern's welfare proposals...
...cost $90 billion a year. His chief economic adviser is Martin Anderson, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who now works for Reagan full time. Anderson, who served as a special assistant to the President during the early Nixon years, describes himself as a "free-market economist." He is author of The Federal Bulldozer, a denunciation of urban renewal programs. Anderson is one of the few economists who still believe that a literally balanced federal budget is possible. Reagan has also sought advice from Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, a member...
...promote this one-worldism, the Club is developing what Peccei calls "a trilogy of efforts," starting with a report titled "Reshaping the International Order." Written by Nobel Prizewinning Dutch Economist Jan Tinbergen and 20 top government advisers-Club members are nothing if not highly placed-it is mainly concerned with the kinds of action that might influence selective growth. One recommendation will be to create new international monetary reserves to finance development in Third World countries. Other recommendations are to reduce tariffs on industrial products sold by developing nations, to set up new international agencies to subsidize the conservation...
...seems to be suffering seriously from the calm in food costs. Farmers may be getting less for what they produced than in 1972 and 1973, but they are still doing well. Says Agriculture Department Economist Dawson Ahalt: "What they have lost in prices they are making up in volume." Moreover, profit margins for processors, wholesalers and retailers remain healthy...