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Other Cambridge professors included in the blacklist were MIT economics professors Lester Thurow and Paul Samuelson...
...Others: Economists John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Samuelson and Lester Thurow; Carter Administration officials Patricia Roberts Harris, James Schlesinger and Stansfield Turner; Poet Allen Ginsberg; former National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy; and CIA nemesis Philip Agee...
What happened? Some economists suspect a statistical fluke. Says Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The drop is too big to be believable." Labor Department statisticians who prepared the report, however, think that if there was an error, it consisted of counting in July some reductions in unemployment that actually occurred in June-which would mean that the drop was less abrupt than it appears, but nonetheless real...
M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow argues that most of the industrial-policy schemes under discussion would amount to a prop-up-the-losers approach that he calls "lemon socialism." As an alternative, Thurow suggests that the U.S. emulate to some degree...
...inflation. Says Allan Meltzer, a Carnegie-Mellon University professor and an influential monetarist: "If the Keynesian program had worked, Jimmy Carter would still be President." Although many Keynesians now want to trim the deficit, the recession has emboldened others to call for continued high deficit spending. Says Lester Thurow, a leading Keynesian who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "For the next four or five years the problem is how you get the economy moving to reduce unemployment. For a period, we can afford to practice old-fashioned Keynesian economics again...