Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only federal intervention can prevent default. It's not a matter of "bailing out" New York, as Ford would have it, but of giving the city time through federal guarantees for city bonds or direct loans. Mismanagement and incompetence have created many of New York's problems, so the city...
Default and its nationwide consequences are the real issues at the moment, but Ford has managed--despite many economists' dire warnings--to depict the question of federal intervention as a struggle between New York and the rest of the country. It is now a political choice between irresponsible social services...
Kissinger was about to sit down with Spanish Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri in New York to continue negotiations for a new "friendship and cooperation" agreement between the two countries. At stake for the U.S. are its three Spanish airbases, which would be needed if the U.S. had to resupply...
Virtually all Harvard economics professors fall within this school. In fact, Harvard has a nationwide reputation for being the leading university in the school of thought advocating this position. Decades of endless apologia for ever increasing state intervention and control of the economy has earned the department this well-deserved...
To the right of this position is the University of Chicago conservative school, named after its home base. The most famous Chicagoan is Milton Friedman. This school believes free markets are usually more effective than central planning and government intervention and opposes most of the welfare state measures supported by...