Word: economists
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...Overlap arrangement, says Keith Leffler, a University of Washington antitrust economist who testified for the government, allowed member schools to raise their gross tuition (now often called the "sticker price") to very high levels without scaring off talented low-income students. The wealthiest students would come no matter what, and might even be attracted by the high prices. Says Leffler: "There's no doubt [Overlap] artificially inflated tuition prices...
DIED. STANISLAV SHATALIN, 62, witty economist who was a principal architect of "500 Days," the bold 1990 plan to convert the Soviet Union to a market economy, drafted at Mikhail Gorbachev's urging but dropped under pressure from Gorbachev's more conservative advisers; in Moscow...
...everyone applauds the Fed's inaction. Stephen Roach, chief global economist for Morgan Stanley, thinks higher rates are sorely needed to slow the economy and keep the bulls in their place. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said last December that the stock market was showing what he called irrational exuberance. Roach wants Greenspan to strengthen that warning when the Fed Chairman goes before Congress this week...
This champion of globalization started life in a provincial setting: the isolated west coast of Sweden. Educated as an economist, Barnevik left a management-consulting job to help a troubled Swedish steel company. Success there led to the ceo spot at Asea, a large electrical-engineering firm then in decline. Barnevik carried out a radical and initially painful shake-up, dubbed "Percy's reign of terror...
...Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven industrialization and, since 1993, Brazil's largest privately owned firm. She has more than her share of work ahead at CSN, where she is leading what she calls an "internal revolution" that is likely to set standards for other Brazilian industries as well...