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...Barbara Heller, a member of the Energy Policy Staff of the Environmental Policy Center, said Nixon's message advocated the reduction of demand for oil on a voluntary basis. She said that asking American industry to take steps for self-regulation without any economic incentives or government enforcement is "like asking cigarette companies to do research on cancer...
Says Walter Heller, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "As I look at the various pieces of food-processing business, whether it is flour milling or cheese manufacturing, the profit margins are absolutely miserable all down the line...
Some economists, like Arthur Okun, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, fault N.E.W. as an attempt to measure the unmeasurable; others, including Walter Heller, also a member of the board, applaud it as a step in the right direction. Samuelson himself admits that the N.E.W. is relatively primitive, but argues that "it is better to have an inaccurate sense of what we want than an accurate sense of what we do not want." He hopes that the inclusion of the N.E.W. concept in his textbook, which is used by nearly one-third of all college economics students...
Since food prices accounted for about two-thirds of the jump in consumer costs, many of the President's critics favored putting a freeze on farm-commodity prices-and even some of his advisers declined to rule out that idea. Former CEA Chairman Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists and until now a firm opponent of farm controls, for the first time reluctantly concludes that such a freeze may become necessary. "It's economically distasteful, but may be needed to block a new price-wage spiral," he says. Many economists still fear, however...
LOWELL HOUSE JCR. Chamber works of James Yannatos. Performers include Joan Heller, Robert Gartside, Gerald Moshell, and Stephen Hefling...