Word: economists
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...Harvard astronomer, economist and psychologist have claimed three of the 100 prestigious Sloan Fellowships, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced March...
Aside from Greenspan's personality, I also question the selection of an economic policymaker, whose popularity is fickle and whose accomplishments, like those of most politicians, are not likely to stand the test of time. Would an economist have been selected 10 years ago, shortly after Black Monday and on the eve of a major recession? I doubt it. By contrast, Ralph Ellison (Commencement speaker in 1974) will always be a great novelist, Oscar Arias (speaker in 1988) will always be a crusader for peace and Colin Powell (speaker in 1993) will always be a military hero...
Doctors both in America and Hong Kong say Hsiao, trained as an economist, is largely ignorant of the realities of practicing medicine. They claim that his system only results in overburdened doctors and a lowered standard of care...
Doctors both in America and Hong Kong say Hsiao, trained as an economist, is largely ignorant of the realities of practicing medicine...
...hundred years ago, the English economist Thomas Malthus calculated that the world's population would soon outstrip its food-growing capacity. What he didn't anticipate was Norman Borlaug. Working in Mexico from 1944 to 1960--long before the advent of modern biotechnology--the U.S. biologist developed a hybrid strain of wheat that was enormously more prolific than its natural cousins. Borlaug's "miracle wheat" allowed Mexico to triple its grain production in a matter of years, and when his hybrid was introduced in south Asia in the mid-1960s, wheat yields there jumped 60%. Miracle strains of rice...