Word: kenneth
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...JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH has always presented himself as a loner, a maverick among economists. Disdained by the economics establishment, Galbraith often purports to be the sole purveyor of truth and reason. Whether he is or not, Galbraith makes academics and politicians on all sides squirm nervously whenever he comes out with a new theory. He attacks mercilessly--some would say thoughtlessly--but his work is some of the freshest and most pleasingly controversial of any academic. Critics always find some hole in his argument, but this is not a failing in his work, just a consequence of the fact that...
...Kenneth M. Pierce
...Kenneth J. Arrow, James Bryant Conant University Professor, who will leave for Stanford University on July 1, said yesterday, "Harvard maintains a more diverse economics department. I believe one of the effects of this is to produce more tension among students...
...Kenneth J. Arrow, Conan University professor and a Nobel prize winning economist, said in a letter last month that the Corporation's estimates of both the long and short term costs of divestiture are too high, although "there is necessarily a wide degree of uncertainty about predicting effects of any stock market transactions...
Edelin's acquital is regarded as one of the most important decisions on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. After the acquital, Dr. Kenneth Ryan, professor of obstetrics at the Harvard Medical School, said the case was significant because it would "take some of the weight off of physicians who perform abortions...