Word: economists
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Dudley Cooperative House, Dudley; Harvard College Economist, Executive Editor; Radcliffe Rugby; Harvard Men's Heavyweight Crew, Freshman coxswain; Women's JV Soccer...
...emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts it, "If you said, 'Let's design a problem that human institutions can't deal with,' you couldn't find one better than global warming...
...this way of thinking, folks like Patten and Martin Lee are gate-crashers at 1997's tea party. Patten has been vilified in the Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...
...Either it means that they know what they're doing and are kicking up dust to avoid telling us, or it means they don't know what they're doing. I'm inclined to the latter." --Brookings Institution health economist Henry Aaron, commenting on the Republican: congressional leadership's debate of Medicare and Medicaid reform. He was quoted in the Boston Globe on Sept...
Ellwood, a labor economist who specializes in the problems of the poor, was the academic dean of the Kennedy School when he left Harvard in 1992 to serve in the Clinton administration...