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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freedom, independence and money the University would suffer? He suggests that Harvard should leave the moral decisions to the government: "We are more likely to achieve a better society by relying on the government to regulate corporate behavior and direct foreign policy than by encouraging private organizations to use their economic power...
...Harvard is that small acts of daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwyn, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told us that there must be an unavoidable conflict between what we believe and what we do. At the deepest level, our President...
...bureau in 1920 as an organization "devoted to objective quantitative analysis of the American economy." That quantitative analysis included the compilation of statistics on the business cycle and labor supply. The bureau began amassing information like flow of fund accounts and national income accounts for the government to use in fiscal planning...
Research associates may apply for grants through the bureau, or use the unrestricted contributions that companies and individuals give the NBER--"untied funds that we are able to move into an area without waiting for the gestation of a project," Charles E. McLure Jr., vice president of the NBER, explains. NBER publishes about 100 research papers a year. The bureau faced deficits in fiscal years 1975 and 1976 but, McLure adds, its endowment covered the loss. Feldstein has closed out fiscal '77 and '78 with surplusses...
...objective of bureau research is to provide information on the U.S. economy to policy-makers in the public and private sectors," McLure says. "Our prime interest is to communicate our results to people who use them. Naturally we don't mind them falling into the hands of people who think our projects are worth funding," he adds...