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MONDAY, APR. 13-The Harvard Faculty Against the War is sponsoring a series of workshops, both contentand action-oriented. "The emphasis is on a spectrum of anti-war viewpoints," according to William R. Alexander, assistaut professor of English and an organizer (along with John R. Maynard. also assistant professor of English) of the workshops...
Besides Kiely, five faculty members and three students will serve on the committee. The faculty members are professors Reuben A. Brower and David D. Perkins '51, assistant professors John R. Maynard '63 and Kevin O. Starr, and teaching fellow Mark W. Booth. Student representatives have not yet been chosen...
...M.L.A. convention in Denver, Professor Kampf was elevated to first vice president, which puts him in line next year to succeed the association's new president, Shakespearean Scholar Maynard Mack, chairman of the Yale English department. The delegates gave up trying to pass resolutions after stormy debate over a number of proposals, most of them offered by dissidents. Among other things, they wanted the association to demand that colleges hire women teachers in the same proportion that they are represented in the U.S. population (51%) and provide free day-care centers for their children; also included was a repeat...
Most economists also follow the teaching of Britain's late John Maynard Keynes, who articulated how changes in taxes and government spending can stabilize business cycles. The philosophy of Keynes, who died in 1946, has dominated the economic policies of industrial nations since World War II. Today's prevailing belief, however, is a hybrid; most economists now consider themselves "Friedmanesque Keynesians." Having risen from maverick to messiah, Friedman ranks with Walter Heller and John Kenneth Galbraith as one of the most influential U.S. economists of the era. Heller, who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under...
...consequence, in Friedman's view, was that John Maynard Keynes concluded that monetary policy had only a limited impact on economic trends. That led him to underrate the money supply as an economic regulator. Friedman maintains that Keynesian economists made the same error for decades afterward?and indeed, that many still do today. In reality, Friedman argues, the Federal Reserve in the 1930s had ample power to prevent the monetary contraction. "Had the facts been as Keynes assumed them to be," Friedman has written, "I could not hold the views I do about the role of money. Had Keynes recognized...