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...Bulldogs get serious when the Crimson is in town. Yale Professor of Economics William V. Nordhaus, Yale '63, says that The Game embodies "athletic rivalry between the two leading universities of the world, one leading in both intellectual and athletic arenas: Yale...
Yale fanatic Nordhaus will sit across the Yale Bowl from his son tomorrow. According to the elder Nordhaus, son Jeffrey '89 is just exhibiting transitory sentiments...
...temporary period he may find himself rooting with Harvard so fellow students don't beat him up," says the elder Nordhaus. "His youthful mislaid enthusiasm will change...
...college campuses all the same. Titled simply Economics, the classic textbook by Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson has sold nearly 4 million copies since its 1948 debut. In the twelfth version, published last week by McGraw-Hill ($32.95), Samuelson for the first time has a co-author, Yale Professor William Nordhaus, who served on President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Samuelson, 69, who will retire in May from his professorship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose Nordhaus, 43, to help keep the book timely and vital by updating and revising some sections. Says Samuelson: "It was a big decision...
...Nordhaus, who studied under Samuelson, at first felt handicapped by his reverence for the tome. Says he: "It was like trying to revise the King James Bible." One major change is a greater emphasis on monetary policy's role in controlling the economy. Earlier editions held the Keynesian view that federal spending policy was more important. The new version pays great attention to interest-rate policy and the role of the Federal Reserve Board...