Lester Thurow to Discuss Technological Leadership in a World Economy
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Lester Thurow to Discuss Technological Leadership in a World Economy 1988 MRS Fall Meeting Plenary Address
Lester Thurow Lester Thurow will present the Plenary Address, "Maintaining Technological Leadership in a World Economy" at 6:00 p.m., Monday, November 28,1988, at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston. With the rapid increase in technology and the equally rapid spread of new technology to industrialized countries, technological leadership is becoming increasingly important for economic survival. Thurow will cover the factors that will determine technical leadership in this world economy for the next few decades. Thurow, a thoughtful, articulate econo-
mist, has greatly enhanced the discussion the Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Ecoand study of public affairs. He is the aunomics in Management at MTTs Sloan thor, co-author or editor of twelve books, School of Management, and Dean of the including the influential The Zero Sum Soci- Sloan School of Management. In addition to his formal academic appointments, he ety (1980). In this book, Thurow posits an carries on his educational activities as an economy of limits in which gains achieved by one group must be traded off against articulate spokesman clarifying and illumilosses for others. He argues that when gov- nating the discipline of economics for the lay public and providing informed comernment bestows any benefit on a particular social class or interest group another mentary on public policy issues and the group must give up an equivalent share of state of the economics profession. He was contributing editor of Newsweek from 1981 the economic pie. All efforts to redistribute the fixed shares are therefore resisted by to 1984, during which he published a regupowerful interest groups, each of which relar column. He currently writes a column pudiates any suggestion that it surrender a for Technology Review and frequently writes for the New York Times, where he was a portion of its share. As a result, policymaking is paralyzed. member of the editorial board from August In his next book, Dangerous Currents: A to December of 1979. State of Economics (1983), Thurow focused Thurow received his BA in political econhis critical insights on his own profession. omy from William College in 1960, his MA He takes his colleagues to task for their hes- in philosophy, politics and economics from itancy in accepting new concepts and paraOxford University in 1962, and his PhD in digms when old ones have been economics from Harvard University in exhausted. He accuses them of clinging to 1964. He taught at Harvard in 1964 and theoretical consistency and rigor while ne1965 following a term as staff member on glecting the realities of the modern world. President Lyndon B. Johnson's council of Lester Thurow is one of America's foreeconomic advisers. Thurow is a member of most economic educators. A member of the American Economics Association and the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute received Harvard's David P. Wells Prize in of Technology since 1968, he is currently 1968. IMFRTSI
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