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Nobel Prize winning economist Wassily W. Leontief told the Harvard Law School Forum last night that the only hope of saving the world's underdeveloped countries is to reduce increases in defense spending...
...Leontief said that the world's poorer countries may be saved only by massive transfers of capital from the more developed countries. This transfer is impossible without reducing increases in defense spending, he added...
...Leontief also ruled out Marxist revolution as a means of rejuvinating production in the third world nations...
...that Economist Wassily Leontief has assured us that we can support several billion more people on our planet, perhaps he can give us one good reason why we should...
There is little joy in the reported conclusion of the Leontief study [Oct. 25] that "world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century." This hardly alters the situation perceived by both the doomsayers and the realists-that we are in trouble. I am not optimistic that the "extra" 50 or 75 years will be time enough...