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...Slavonophilic views of the first or the pro-Israeli view of the second. Nor should Friedman's views on Rhodesia (mistaken in my opinion) stand in the way of recognizing his scientific contributions to economics. That the latter have been extensive and significant is not really disputable (cf. Samuelson's column in the current issue of Newsweek...
...ceiling-high mountain of tenth-edition Samuelson "Economics" texts stood in contrast to the empty shelves from which several hundred copies of Morrison and Boyd's "Organic Chemistry" had already disappeared...
...Economist Paul A. Samuelson...
Nobel Laureate Samuelson addressed his pugnacious remarks to a forum of European and U.S. business leaders and economists at Harvard earlier this year. At the invitation of Management Expert John Diebold, the leaders had gathered to discuss new challenges to the role of profits in Western economies. Almost without exception, the speakers testified to the pressures and pinches now afflicting the profit system. In some instances, most notably Sweden, Socialist governments are levying confiscatory taxes on corporate profits and insisting upon huge contributions to pension funds, which in turn are being used to buy up the companies; "fund Socialism...
...that question is likely to be posed more often and more insistently. Opinion polls suggest that a majority of the public believes that corporations earn much more than they actually do, and favor higher taxes on profits. Hence, it would behoove Americans, too, to rid their minds of what Samuelson characterizes as the suspicion that profits are "an exploitative surplus which fat men with an unfair penchant for arithmetic skim from the gross national product...