Word: nber
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Leontief left his native Soviet Union in 1925 to continue his studies at the University of Berlin, because he felt intellectual and personal freedoms were being restricted. Four years later, he emigrated to the United States where he found a job with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), based in Cambridge...
Also the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Feldstein is an advocate of lower taxes, which he believes will stimulate growth and lead to more investment in the economy...
David M. Cutler, John L. Loeb professor of social sciences and an associate at NBER, said Feldstein is well qualified to head Cellucci's economic transition team. "Marty is an exceptional economist and person and I respect his views greatly. He has thought about economic issues facing the nation and the state as much as anybody," Cutler said...
...NBER was almost bankrupt," Lindsey says, "He turned it around and made it into one of the nation's leading thinktanks...
John B. Shoven, a Stanford professor of economics and a member of the NBER, also speaks highly of Feldstein's management of the organization, which coordinates conferences and funding for economists at universities all over the country...