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...Reich's Remedy...
...obvious that Harvard's Robert Reich [May 2] springs from the same source as John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. Can anyone seriously suggest expanding the role of Government in business? It is just this kind of interference that has had a destabilizing influence on our economy. Reich's proposals can only result in further currency debasement, greater unemployment, less productivity and, finally, in an almost certain economic debacle...
...Although Reich came to Cambridge to research and write, he discovered teaching was "an added bonus." He had taught briefly at Yale Law School and "had an intuitive sense I'd like it," but not as much as he found he did. "There is something very exciting about students becoming enthusiastic about the same things that I am enthusiastic about." Reich also uses his classes to improve his writing. "In class my ideas are tested, made more concrete, and some are shown to be inadequate." He is considered to be one of the K-School's best teachers and more...
...Reich's teaching, like his policies, are not for everyone. Students say that he is not the most scholarly of professors and does not have the firmest hold on micro and macro economic theories, but instead paints with a broad brush. For that reason he tends to draw students who are more interested in politics than academia. As one comments. "Bob is not an academician by any means, but he is good for the people he is teaching and preparing for government." Another adds. "His teaching is geared to what the Democrats should...
...Reich is also well known within the walls of 79 Kennedy St. for his sense of humor, including a propensity to get comic mileage out of his height. His speeches begin with quips like "I was 6'2" before I went into government" or, emphasizing his neo-liberal credentials. "Do I look like big government?" His appearance as an Albanian Ambassador with Michael Nacht, Associate Professor of Public Policy, was also the hit of the K-School's talent show last month. Winthrop Knowlton, director of the Business and Government Center, voices the general admiration: "I just marvel...