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Economists traditionally assume that people want material goods and that each individual will do whatever is necessary to achieve this. Refining this premise is the basis for much of the development of economic theory, resulting in enormous advances in our ability to understand social phenomena and history. Consequently, economics established its primacy among the social sciences. In the past generation, big economic numbers--gross national product, personal disposable income and the rate of growth--have dominated electoral politics throughout the industrial world...
...speculation about whether Radcliffe would benefit from having a woman coach. Peter Raymond, Graves's predecessor as the heavyweight skipper, said last spring he thought Radcliffe needed a woman coach because he found it difficult to "deal with some of the problems women athletes experience. Only another woman would understand them," he explained...
...nonetheless, important to understand this most recent use of symbolism for what it was: a cosmetic means of finessing the absence of a comprehensive urban policy. Carter is simply not ready to transmit his compassion into concrete initiatives; he is not fully committed to helping rebuild the cities--the visual image of him in the Bronx notwithstanding. Such was clear from something the President said during the visit: that there is no need to search for solutions beyond programs already proposed or in existence...
...Carter doesn't understand the social pathology involved--the role poverty and high unemployment play in the cycle of destruction, depopulation and ultimate demolition of urban areas. His welfare plan, now being insidiously nibbled at in Sen. Russel D. Long's (D.-La.) Finance Committee, is a basically constructive one. The $1.4 billion worth of public sector jobs and focus on low-income private employment, combined with last year's $6 billion public works stimulus package, are steps in the right direction--and about as much as can be expected from an Administration that never was full-employment oriented...
...York Yankees won. They are now the best team in baseball. That much I understand (and thank you, Mr. Jackson, for your three long exclamation points in the last game). What I don't understand was all this talk throughout the Series about the "tremendous pressure on the Yanks...