Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students who walked out of the Geography building last week didn't accomplish much. They had failed to win any concrete concessions from the faculty in their demands for more Marxist instruction at the school, and had also abandoned their leading demand, the tenure of a Marxist economist who had not been rehired. But even while they sat in, the students had forced a minor "left-face" from the Clark faculty--something that never would have happened if they had not dislocated Appley for those ten days...
Gummerson is a Marxist economist and his "hassle" at Clark, he says, has been with an Economics department that has three times tried to release him. Each time Gummerson, an assistant professor, has protested the decision, but this time, when tenure is at stake, the department shows no signs of backing down...
...those who came to Gummerson's support in his latest appeal was Samuel S. Bowles, a Marxist economist who was not granted tenure at Harvard but has found a haven at UMass...
...many different types of unemployment that they require very different remedies." Other witnesses advanced special ideas. Reginald Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., commented that tax incentives to industry would go a long way toward cutting unemployment by encouraging businessmen to invest in job-creating expansion. Said Economist Robert Eisner of Northwestern University: "If you want to create more jobs, cut the payroll tax"-i.e., the Social Security tax. Since an employer pays part of the tax as a fixed percentage of each worker's wage, a reduction would allow him to put a new worker on the payroll...
...started a magazine that would appeal to urban dwellers anywhere in the state. "We like to think we're writing about things that never would have been written about if we hadn't been here," says Editor Broyles, a onetime writer for the British weekly Economist. He may well be right. Texas Monthly has boldly attacked Dallas banking institutions, Houston law firms, airport safety and that most sacred of cows, college football. Texas Monthly has lacked originality and punch in its graphics, but it has become an articulate voice for the rising urban consciousness in the third most...