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...majored in economics and mathematics at Brown University, is a pioneer in econometrics, in which hundreds of related equations are fed into a computer to determine what would happen if, say, a 45-day auto strike occurred this fall. In 1963 Evans joined Professor Lawrence Klein at the Wharton School. But Evans broke with him after half a dozen years and later struck a deal with Chase Manhattan Bank to create Chase Econometrics. Forecasting by econometrics became immensely popular with corporate and Government clients, and today is a $100 million-a-year business...
...field is dominated by three firms, each with its own style. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, under the scholarly Klein, is austere and academic. Data Resources, headed by Harvard's Otto Eckstein, is cerebral and expanding. Under Evans, Chase Econometrics has been outspoken and controversial. Even Chase was not immune to his barbs. When the bank was having trouble in 1975, Evans said: "I have no Chase stock, but if I did, I'd sell...
Naipaul -Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick -Good as Gold, Joseph Heller - SS-GB, Len Deighton -The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff NONFICTION: Billy Graham, Marshall Frady -Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills -The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson -The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas -The Powers That Be, David Halberstam The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris -To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Good as Gold, Joseph Heller SS-GB, Len Deighton The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff The Flounder, Günter Grass
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Fielder's Choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman ∙ Good as Gold, Joseph Heller ∙ SS-GB, Len Deighton ∙ The Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff ∙ The Flounder, Günter Grass