Word: economists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leap in the first-quarter G.N.P. took virtually all economists by surprise. Only two weeks ago, a survey of 48 forecasters by Blue Chip Economic Indicators, a Sedona, Ariz., newsletter, produced a consensus prediction that growth would be only 5.7% during the period. Observed Charles Schultze, a chief economist under President Carter: "In hindsight, it is surprising to see the continued strength of housing, the auto industry and business investment in the face of such high interest rates...
President Reagan and Congress should stop accusing each other and start cooperating to reduce the deficit [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, March 5]. Their refusal to tackle the problem could lead the country into another recession. Martin Feldstein is the kind of economist the nation needs. Eventually he may be able to make the Administration and Congress see that America is drowning in deficits...
...economists and industry experts. They contend that there is no reason why the combination of Gulf and Socal should not continue to do nearly as much exploration as the two were doing separately. In addition, they note that if the stock value of oil companies continues to go up, the resulting higher value for reserves swill encourage more drilling. Even the effect on crude prices will be slight. Economist Alan Greenspan of the Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm observes, "These mergers are, in the world scheme, not terribly relevant. Even if they were, it is a competitive market, and no matter...
...tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron's exact words that "Marxism is the opiate of intellectuals." So much for the nursery of radicalism...
...time when New Hampshire primary voters were heading for the polls, a pleasantly round-faced woman economist named Zinaida Vladimirova Baturina waited for a trolleybus outside the Moscow office building where she works. It was 5 p.m. in the Soviet capital, and the orange glow of twilight hung in the western sky. Twenty minutes later Zinaida Vladimirova reached her destination, a neighborhood campaign office. She had promised to put in an evening's work as an agitator (local volunteer) in the windup of this week's election of 1,500 deputies to the Supreme Soviet. As she settled...