Word: economists
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...class consciousness. "I haven't read Marx," he admitted. "I got stuck on that footnote on page 2." He joined the civil service in 1940 to aid the war effort, leaving his post as an economics don at Oxford; three years later, at age 27, he became chief economist in the wartime fuel and power ministry. At 29 he won a seat in Commons, where he has remained for 31 consecutive years-30 of them either as a minister or shadow minister and 13 of them as Labor Party leader...
Died. Sidney E. Rolfe, 54, economist, who was among the first to argue for the now widely accepted monetary policy of floating international exchange rates; of cancer; in East Hampton...
Kilbridge took over as acting dean in the fall of 1969, a Business School economist who had specialized in applying analytical techniques to urban problems. Kilbridge was not President Nathan M. Pusey's first choice to fill the position permanently; originally only a baby sitter, Kilbridge ascended to the permanent deanship after Pusey had received a round of "no, thank you's" from several more attractive candidates...
...stockholders' income from their share holdings ahead of inflation. Although stock prices themselves dipped sharply during that period, dividends paid by U.S. corporations soared from $22.9 billion in 1970 to $32.8 billion last year; that 43% rise outpaced a 36% climb in the consumer price index. This year Economist Irwin Kellner of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust expects dividends to go up about 8%, well ahead of the anticipated 6% rate of inflation...
...Economist Thorstein Veblen, Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey founded it in a few Manhattan brownstones. Their aim: enlivening traditional learning. From the start, they succeeded. In the 1920s, the school offered the first college-level courses on black culture, taught by W.E.B. DuBois; in the '30s Martha Graham taught pioneering classes in modern dance...