Word: hansen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judges, the Council has secured the services of three full professors--Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; David E. Owen, professor of History; and University Professor Roscoe Pound...
Oldtimer Charles Hansen, a prospector since 1923, had seen nothing like it since the original Red Lake Rush. The only trouble was that most of the claim-stakers were from the East or B.C., he said. "Manitobans seem to be missing the boat...
Some years ago, theorists of the Keynes-Hansen school were summarily tagged as "pump-primers." That emotionally charged label no longer does them justice. Professor Hansen argues tellingly for an integrated set of Federal policies which will diminish the roller-coaster swings of the economy from prosperity to ruin. The recommended measures include such familiar short-run ones as expanded public works in depression and cyclically adjusted tax burdens, together with attempts to get at the more fundamental factors through income redistribution, subsidized consumption, and active encouragement of private investment. The nation's best-known advocate of deliberate fiscal planning...
...general reader, in order to understand what all the argument is about, must first be well acquainted with a forbidding amount of technical jargon. It is precisely the serious but uninitiated reader who will be most easily confused by a barrage of professional patois. After Ec A, Professor Hansen's latest book would be easy sailing. Unfortunately, most Congressmen have never undergone even that much introductory training...
...patchwork procedures so far evolved in the United States. The object-lesson is pellucidly set forth; in matters economic, this nation runs a poor fifth to its more enlightened and more alert neighbors. A solon utterly unable to follow the rigorous argument of the other parts of Professor Hansen's work would learn that the heresies of Lord Keynes are fast becoming the orthodoxies of chancellories from Stockholm to New South Wales...