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...described as almost a Republican government in exile. Unlike Brookings, where most appointments are full time, A.E.I. has only a small core of a dozen program directors and six resident scholars, and depends heavily on a large and highly prestigious group of outside consultants and experts. Paul W. McCracken, once chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, serves part time as head of A.E.I.'s "council of academic advisers" and plays a leading role in choosing what subjects the institute will study and who will investigate them. Others helping A.E.I. on a part-time basis...
Incentive Lack. Among economists, Liberal Robert Nathan, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, and Conservative Paul McCracken, former chief adviser to President Nixon, found themselves unlikely allies in calling the program too small to give the economy the push it needs. Some bankers and businessmen were displeased that the program contains no specific incentive for investing more in new plant and equipment. Says Eugene Birnbaum, chief economist for the First National Bank of Chicago: "This tax package is appalling to me. We would be better off without stimulus than with one so badly formed...
...Allen C. McCracken...
That's just about the way it stands as the trial opens. Other heavies of the Arizona business world drift in and out of the story and it will be interesting to see what the trial turns up. Detective Lonzo McCracken of the Phoenix Police Dept. said "Listen this murder was planned." Which means what? That a reporter was killed at high noon in the middle of town--as an example or out of stupidity...
...consultant to various Washington agencies in the 1940s, he was instrumental in turning Keynes' ideas into national policy. At Harvard, where he held the prestigious Littauer chair in political economy from 1937 to 1956, Hansen taught many of today's top economists, among them Paul W. McCracken and Paul A. Samuelson...