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Lester C. Thurow, 36, has been a full professor of economics and management at M.I.T. since he was 33. Montana-born, educated at Williams, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar) and Harvard, Thurow was a staffer for the Council of Economic Advisers during the opening shots of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. As a member of George McGovern's 1972 Cambridge brain trust, he proposed a potent inheritance tax as a step toward redistributing the 45% of the wealth held by 2.5% of the U.S. population. That and other such programs stirred a row, says Thurow, because...
After the June meeting, MIT economists Edwin Kuh (an informal McGovern adviser since 1968) and Lester Thurow began developing McGovern's tax reform proposals. On his own, Weil began looking into the issue of welfare reform, seeking occasional advice from Kuh and Nancy Amaday, a staffer on McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition...
Henle's study is the latest in a series of surprising findings on economic inequality in the U.S. During the past year and a half, the Census Bureau, the nonprofit Cambridge Institute in Massachusetts, and M.I.T. Economists Lester Thurow and Robert Lucas have all found that since World...
MARC ROBERTS, 29, is an associate professor at Harvard and a close friend of both Thurow and Kuh, who helped recruit him. A specialist in the economics of pollution control, Roberts has also worked on figuring the costs of McGovern's "conversion" program-the job retraining and unemployment payments to defense workers that will be necessary if the Pentagon's budget is cut by $32 billion, as McGovern proposes. Roberts is hardly a youthful radical. One reason that he likes McGovern, he says, is that the Senator "has absorbed the lesson of the past 20 years that...
...Wells Professor of Political Economy; Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government; John Rawls, professor of Philosophy; Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, Charles Fried, professor of Law; Stephen A. Marglin '59, assistant professor of Economics and coorganizer of the group; Gerald D. Rosenthal, assistant professor of Economics; and Lester E. Thurow, assistant professor of Economics...