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...Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., maintained that cutting the runaway growth of federal spending is not politically impossible...
Besides Pipes, the Harvard name that pops up most often is Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, who could not be reached for comment this week. Sources suggest that Feldstein, who was considered for the post of chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1976, could be tapped for that position this time around...
...taxes. After all, the call for a tax cut has long been heard from certain senate Republican circles, Dole offering a prime example. And the Kemp-Roth proposal for balancing the budget, which includes a massive tax cut, has been the object of flirtation for many politicos. Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, has characterized the Kemp-Roth proposal as something "politicians can digest in thirty seconds and discuss for months...
...brightest younger economists on campuses, including Harvard's Martin Feldstein, Southern California's Arthur Laffer and Stanford's Michael Boskin, generally emphasize the strengths of the free market and the failure of government intervention. The theme that unites them is skepticism
Stephen A. Marglin '59, professor of Economics, and Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, received honorable mention for their teaching efforts. Feldstein is considered one of the country's top young conservative economists, and Marglin is the only tenured radical professor in the Economics department...