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Lawrence B. Lindsey, an associate of Auerbach's at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an instructor for the summer version of Economics 10, called the capital gains reductions "particularly dramatic in regard to universities" and estimated that as much as 40 per cent of Harvard's income from private contributions could evaporate...
Director of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research(NBER)--the official monitor of the U.S. business cycle--Feldstein said "Cambridge is where I belong" and added that he did not want to interrupt his teaching and research at Harvard, where he has been a full professor since 1969. He did not rule out a part-time association with the Reagan White House...
...addition to heading the NBER, Feldstein co-edits the Journal of Public Economics, is a member of several economic associations and was recently named to Time magazine's board of economists...
...Slemrode suggests the interaction between the NBER and the Harvard Economics Department may not be so mutualistic as the one between the bureau and individual Harvard professors. "The department was never noted for its cohesiveness. Some would say the bureau breaks down the cohesiveness that is there," Slemrode says...
...long as I'm here." As for the advantages to professors, Perkins says, "Except maybe in the amount it's publicized, I don't think it makes any difference whether an economist does the research sitting at his desk in Littauer or at the bureau."CrimsonChris DammTAKATOSHI ITO, NBER assistant...