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...tradition going back to 1969, when the magazine began inviting top economists to gather around a table and divulge their forecasts about the recessions, recoveries and wrenching trends that sweep through the U.S. economy like weather systems. Among the panelists over the years have been such figures as Lester Thurow, a best-selling author and dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board...
...M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow published an influential book called The Zero-Sum Society. This became a notorious phrase. Thurow's critics, mostly conservative, accused him of suggesting that the American economy could not change or grow. Thurow's point was, rather, that at any given moment society's resourcesTIME
After the King verdict, many blacks said bitterly they had always thought the cops would be turned loose. Lester Barry, the black emcee of the "Comedy 'n the Hood" show at the Guild Theatre in Inglewood, had even been saying in his act that "those guys are going to get off." But the shock and rage after the verdict belied those statements. This time, many blacks apparently hoped, it would be different. After all, this was not merely the word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard...
...been Shaughnessy's key witness in these proceedings is hiding in fear of his life in a small town in Europe. His real name is Lester Knox Coleman III, although as a former spy for the dia and DEA he was known as Thomas Leavy and by the code name Benjamin B. A year ago, the stockily built, bearded Coleman filed an affidavit describing the narcotics sting operation that Shaughnessy claims was infiltrated by Jibril...
...terms of the value-added tax, ((economist Lester)) Thurow was talking about that, ((economist Robert)) Heilbroner's talking about that. They do it in Europe. It is, I believe, when you use it as replacement rather than add-on, it does not have an increase price effect to the whole economy. But it is price neutral, and it's a matter of what the market conditions are. And I'm sure that if people can raise the price, they'll do so. And since most shares of stock are owned by the wealthiest people, when...