Word: mason
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...their own self-interest, not to serve some higher public good. They behave, he declares, much like consumers in a marketplace. For work stemming from that basic theory of political economy, Buchanan, 67, last week won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economic Science. The Tennessee-born professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is the 14th American to win the economics award since it was first given...
Buchanan has several admirers among members of the Reagan Administration. James Miller III, director of the Office of Management and Budget, was a doctoral student of Buchanan's in the 1960s. Another Buchanan supporter: Manuel Johnson, a former George Mason professor who is now vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board...
James McGill Buchanan, a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., was selected to receive the prize in economic science for his work studying the relationship between economics and politics...
...Harvard refused to play without him, making Pierce the first black to play in an intersectional game below the Mason-Dixon line...
...plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl, as the Dow dropped an additional 18.27 points, to 1820.73. For the next two days, the market rallied faintly, then drifted down again to close at 1821.43. Nonetheless, insisted Mason Sexton, president of Harmonic Research, a Wall Street forecasting firm, "the bull market is intact...