Re: Where are the economists?

[Brad DeLong]

>Beginning with the Kennedy administration, large numbers of economists
>penetrated the highest reaches of government -- far more so than during
>the New Deal.  I remember in issue of Life Magazine or Look Magazine
>from during the Kennedy years with a cover plastered with pictures of
>all the economists in major government positions.
>

Walt Whitman Rostow is a very good development economist and economic 
historian. But I wouldn't call his tenure as Assistant to the 
President for National Security a big win...


Brad DeLong