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...board with liberal economists who could counter Greenspan's fiscal conservatism. "It's unclear which Clinton nominees, if any, could pass muster with Al D'Amato and the Senate Banking Committee," says Zagorin. "Names in the air at the moment include Harvard economist Ben Stein and Princeton economist Peter Kenen." With Clinton's re-election chances looking better, the President may be content to put off a potentially difficult nomination fight until after the November elections. The danger for Democrats is that in doing so, Clinton would leave two prime economic-policy making positions as a prize for whoever wins...
Another Princeton economics professor has also been mentioned as a candidate for the post. Peter Kenen, a professor of economics and international finance, had was also rumored to be under consideration for a Fed spot in 1993. Kenen received his doctorate from Harvard...
...bankers, who have $230 billion at risk in Latin America alone. Said Lawrence Brainard, senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust: "What we expect from Baker is a totally new approach. The U.S. must assume leadership to avoid being overtaken by the crisis." Added Princeton University Economist Peter Kenen: "Baker has learned very quickly what the international realities are. He is going about this in a sensible way." Even so, some bankers feared that the debtors might be allowed too much freedom, which could encourage them to resume their free-spending habits. Just months ago, the three-year...
...Kenen Professor of English William Alfred, who moonlights as a professional playwright, heartily endorses anything by Grace Paley. Walker Percy, or Eudora Welty. And for a change of pace from those authors. Alfred suggests reading from another multifaceted Harvard man. Brad Leithauser '78, whose recently published poems in Hundreds of Fireflies were primarily written during his stints here and at the Law School...
...floating rates. The Europeans are moving to set up among themselves rates that would diverge very little because central bankers would manage them. On the other side, the U.S. has steadfastly argued that only floating rates can avoid the old rigidity and periodic crises. But Princeton Economist Peter B. Kenen asks, "Can the U.S. be content with a monetary system in which we have no role except to complain that there is too much management of currency values, or would we be better off to participate in the management...