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Feldstein has served as president and CEO of NBER—a consortium of more than 500 economists??since 1984. NBER’s power comes from its reputation as a forum for top-notch researchers, who often turn to NBER first to publish their works...
...economists??even liberal ones—accept the fact that most taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, distort incentives to some degree. On this point, we are all Feldstein-ians now. But those taxes are justified to the extent that they provide the revenue needed to invest in public infrastructure and services...
After the memo was leaked to the Economist, Lutzenberger wrote Summers, “Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane...Your thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many conventional ‘economists?? concerning the nature of the world we live...
Summers, who appoints all University Professors, called Wolff a “scholar of enormous insight” and said Jorgenson’s “insights have transformed economists?? understanding of the fundamental processes of production, investment and consumption” in a statement to the Gazette, the University’s official publication...
Politicians and “environmentally-innocent economists?? have placed the world’s population in jeopardy by ignoring the environment, renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson told a crowd of more than 300 at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum last night...