Word: economists
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Charles is attracted to certain strains of New Age thinking. He longs to combine pragmatism with compassion. He is an admirer of the "small is beautiful" philosophy of the British economist E.F. Schumacher, and is a patron of a charity that Schumacher started to help Third World nations develop simple industrial and agricultural tools. As president of the British Medical Association during 1982, he stressed the need for what he calls "complementary medicine"--that is, "looking at a person not so much as a machine, but as the whole, in a classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism...
Bruce F. Davie, the Ways and Means Committee's chief tax economist, said the cap is necessary because tax revenue lost to the bonds amounts to an unvoted subsidy. "The federal government didn't make a conscious decision to give Harvard $30 million a year," Davie said...
While Modigliani's award seemed entirely fitting to his colleagues, the economist himself was a bit surprised. Said he: "As a main-line economist, I haven't regarded it as something worth thinking about, since more esoteric economists have been winning...
Rocard, an economist, is a member of the Socialist Party steering committee and mayor of a Paris suburb called Conflans-Ste.-Honorine. Widely admired for his wit and personal charm, he is one of the country's most popular politicians, regularly topping the opinion polls with about a 55% approval rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file...
...Federal Reserve increasingly challenged. Last week the Reagan Administration announced the nomination to the Fed board of two conservatives who might diminish his policy clout. As expected, the President chose Manuel Johnson, 36, an Assistant Treasury Secretary and supply-side advocate, and Wayne Angell, 55, a Kansas banker, economist and farmer, to fill vacancies on the seven-member board. Their selection, coupled with two earlier Reagan appointments, will produce a majority of the board less likely to toe the Volcker line on monetary policy...