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...monetarists can flourish Milton Friedman's A Monetary History of the United States, the closest that the new economists have to such a tome is a 651-page text, Macroeconomics, by Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, 35, both professors at M.I.T. Published in 1977, it has become the largest selling advanced economics text. The authors' central thesis reflects the new economists' nagging uncertainty about the omnipotence of their own profession. They contend that the complex computer models used to predict the effects of specific economic policies or actions simply do not-and cannot-reflect the way the real...
...Pentagon planners get their way the valleys throughout Nevada and Utah will be dotted with 200 asphalt oval tracks, 20 ft. wide and 10 to 15 miles long. The "race tracks," as the Pentagon calls them, will be traveled at 5 m.p.h. by the largest military vehicle ever built, lugging the nation's most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. Last week the race-track plan, projected to cost $30 billion, was endorsed by a high-level Administration committee; Jimmy Carter's approval is expected later this month...
Still, the new government offered a welcome if temporary relief from the grinding stalemate among the three largest parties, which have been unable to make the compromises necessary for a lasting coalition. The Communists, who dropped to 30% of the vote in last June's election, demand Cabinet seats in any government they support. The Socialists, who gained slightly, to 10%, want the premiership for themselves. The Christian Democrats, who maintained their predominance with 38%, refuse both conditions and cannot even decide which ally they might prefer...
Supporters of aid argue with passion that the U.S. cannot afford the failure of a company that is the nation's tenth largest manufacturer, its biggest builder of military tanks and one of only three major domestic competitors in its supremely important automotive industry. A Congressional Budget Office study concluded last week that a complete Chrysler shutdown would cost 360,000 workers their jobs immediately, and that ripple effects throughout the economy could throw an equal number out of work...
...More judges. This is an obvious step. The federal judiciary clearly needed more judges to cope with its overwhelming load, and last fall it got them from Congress: 152 new judgeships, a 30% increase, the largest ever...