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Arrow won the 1972 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to equilibrium and welfare theory. He shared the prize with Sir John Hicks of Oxford University...
...together during the season to sign non-aggression pacts. A good example of one of these non-aggression treaties is last year's National League East's Holy Alliance. In this balance-of-power division, six mediocre teams agreed to refrain from competing and produced a remarkably stable equilibrium--each club ended up near the .500 mark...
...such an equilibrium would have been hard to foresee. My friends and I are in traditional job tracks, for the most part, though a surprising number are quietly organizing here and there. The harder edges of our radicalism have softened, but what remains has gained respectability (not what we wanted at the time). Harvard is a more pleasant place for the children of the upper-middle-class to pass a few years in, but the Corporation's rule remains unchallenged...
...national will inevitably saps the decisiveness needed for international cooperation. The danger, notes a French Eurocrat, is that "Europe is not irreversible. This situation cannot continue beyond the end of the year without killing us." Adds another Frenchman: "In the terms of psychoanalytical treatment, we will either find our equilibrium or this will lead to suicide...
...weapons at the same time that it seeks to disarm through agreement with Moscow. Russia, he says, "is still a totalitarian state" and must be dealt with "in a cautious process." He further explains: "It is necessary for the U.S. to participate in the maintenance of a worldwide equilibrium of forces, and this requires the American people to do what to some seems to be inconsistent: to pursue detente?an alleviation of political tensions?and to maintain an adequate defense capability. We want to have a relaxation of political relations with the Soviet Union, and at the same time...