Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith's texts are usually nestled somewhere between Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx's Das Kapital. But come this winter, Harvard's preeminent economist may be competing for shelf space with James Michener and Jackie Collins...
Mitterrand's conversion came early in his presidency, during the mid-1980s. His initial attempts to bash the private sector through a program of nationalization and state planning, coupled with a wealth tax, drove capital out of the country and cost workers their jobs. But he learned to make compromises with conservative politicians and alliances with industrialists to promote investment and stimulate employment...
...such apocalyptic visions justified? Not at all, argues conservative pundit George Gilder in his new book, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (Simon & Schuster; $19.95), a lively look at the history and prospects of the U.S. microelectronics industry. Gilder, author of the best-selling Wealth and Poverty, thinks that as computer-chip technology advances, America will widen its lead...
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...this film go not merely unpunished; they are generously rewarded. Upstairs, on the melodramatic story line, a hypocritical Judah gets away with murder, arranging for the assassination of his mistress (Anjelica Huston), who threatens to make their affair -- and his equally shabby financial affairs -- public, thereby destroying his family, wealth and reputation...