Word: thurow
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...Lester Thurow, an MIT economist, will discuss "The Current Economic Predicament" at 8:30 p.m. in Emerson 305. If Thurow's name rings a bell, you may have taken Ec 10. Thurow was the one who talked about "job competition"--a scenario where jobs search for workers--as opposed to the standard theory of "wage competition" in which workers run around looking for jobs. Thurow's theory has numerous applications in the study of black-white income disparities, and explaining in general why some people have more money than others. This last is a topic that Thurow examined...
Each system is marked by its own peculiar inequalities. Those associated with race, sex and age can be counted simply as signs of persisting discrimination. Most regional differences are hangovers from historical divergencies in region al economies. Some disparities, however, simply defy rationalization. M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow in his book Generating Inequality points to extreme variations in income among auto mechanics of roughly equal training and age - along with similarly extreme variations in the earnings of comparable physicians. Why such differences? Nobody has figured...
...Lester Thurow--Ballou Hall at Tufts...
What is a leader's most important role? Said M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow, 38: "Maybe it is the goal-setting that is the basic element, in the sense of going somewhere." In a time of crisis, Thurow continued, "you will have a leader. Maybe a Hitler, a Roosevelt or Huey Long. Somebody will lead when society is collapsing-not necessarily a good leader, but a leader...
...Bruins offensive attack stalls, sophomore punter Tom Thurow, who is averaging 37 yards per punt, will come in to boot the ball...