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Seductions of the Iron Lady Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era By Peter Jenkins Harvard. 417 pp. $25. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Peter Jenkins is a disappointed...

Compulsive Reading for Political Junkies (November 1988)

Compulsive Reading for Political Junkies Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers, Volume 2, Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s By Hunter S. Thompson Summit. 304 pp. $18.95. Reviewed...

How Ronnie Ran the Show (November 1988)

How Ronnie Ran the Show Landslide: The Unmaking of the President By Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus Houghton Mifflin. 468 pp. $21.95. On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency By...

Free Trade in the Real World (September 1988)

Free Trade in the Real World Protectionism By Jagdish Bhagwati MIT. 147pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman An economist who writes a short book in graceful English merits...

Struggles of an American Socialist (July 1988)

Struggles of an American Socialist The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography By Michael Harrington Holt. 260 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Roseland, the ancient haven of...

Hamlet in Albany (May 1988)

Hamlet in Albany Mario Cuomo By Robert S. McElvaine Scribner's. 437pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman As Michael S. Dukakis advances inexorably to the Democratic nomination,...

At the Presidential Starting Gate (December 1987)

At the Presidential Starting Gate Life of the Party: Democratic Prospects in 1988 and Beyond By Robert Kuttner Viking. 265 pp. $18.95. The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988...

Requiem for a Bygone Era (November 1987)

Requiem for a Bygone Era Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill With William Novak Random House. 387pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman British Labor...

A Mystery Readily Solved (October 1987)

A Mystery Readily Solved Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America By Phillip Longman Houghton Mifflin. 308 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Phillip Longman looks at the...

The CEO Follies (September 1987)

The CEO Follies Running American Business By Robert Bowden Lamb Basic. 315 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Robert Lamb, aprofessor of finance and management at New York...

Acting Beyond Selfish Interest (May 1987)

Acting Beyond Selfish Interest Making Public Policy: A Hopeful View of American Government By Steven Kelman Basic. 332 pp. $19.95. Tales of a New America By Robert B. Reich Times...

More than a Thriller (April 1987)

More than a Thriller A Song in the Morning By Gerald Seymour Norton. 364 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman My durable distinction between thrillers and novels is simple: A...

How Ma Bell Got Disconnected (December 1986)

How Ma Bell Got Disconnected The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T By Steve Coll Atheneum. 400 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Mainstream economists, liberal as well as...

Hope for the Other America (September 1986)

Hope for the Other America In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America By Michael B. Katz Basic. 338 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman When I was teaching at...

Tax Reform in a Nasty Universe (July 1986)

THE PLUSES AND MINUSES Tax Reform in a Nasty Universe by robert lekachman President Reagan almost swoons over the Senate tax bill. What delights him most is its contemplated top rate of 27 per...

Supply Side Soap Opera (April 1986)

Supply Side Soap Opera The Triumph of Politics By David A. Stockman Harper & Row. 422 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman In this ill-written, mean-spirited memoir, Ronald Reagan's former...

Eating Away at the Big Apple (October 1985)

Eating Away at the Big Apple Political Crisis/ Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City By Martin Shefter Basic Books. 270pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Martin...

An Inside Spy Job (March 1985)

An Inside Spy Job The Double Man By William S. Cohen and Gary Hart Morrow. 348 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Will Colonel Cyril Metrinko, head of the KGB's counterintelligence...

Prescriptions for a Better America (September 1984)

Prescriptions for a Better America The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice By Robert Kuttner Houghton Mifflin. 308 pp. $19.95. The New American Poverty By...

Mixed Achievement (September 1984)

Mixed Achievement Hubert Humphrey By Carl Solberg Norton. 572 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Only one statute has Hubert Humphrey's name attached to it: the Humphrey-Hawkins...

A Journalist's Melancholy Chronicle (July 1984)

A Journalist's Melancholy Chronicle The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940 By William L. Shirer Little, Brown. 654 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Born in 1904, William L. Shirer was one of...

Roosevelt as Reluctant Reformer (May 1984)

Roosevelt as Reluctant Reformer America 1929-1941: The Great Depression By Robert S. McElvaine Times Books. 402 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This exceptionally well-written...

The Right Reviews Reaganomics (February 1984)

The Right Reviews Reaganomics Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond By Herbert Stein Simon & Schuster. 414 pp. $16.95. The Supply-Side...

The Liberal's Financier (December 1983)

The Liberal's Financier The Twenty-Year Century: Essays on Economics and Public Finance By Felix G. Rohatyn Random. 168 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman In at least one respect,...

The Limitations of Industrial Policy (September 1983)

OLD WINE IN JAPANESE BOTTLES The Limitations of Industrial Policy BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN During the hot summer, the Democrats and the media discovered that our public schools are mediocre 01 worse,...

Updating the Dictionary (April 1983)

Writers & Writing UPDATING THE DICTIONARY BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN In 1933 when the 13 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, subtitled A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, appeared,...

England and America: Transatlantic Echoes (February 1983)

ENGLAND AND AMERICA Transatlantic Echoes BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN At the moment England and the United States are not so much two nations divided by a common language as a pair of societies gripped by...

Will the Tax Hike Work? (September 1982)

ONE MORE FOR THE GIPPER Will the Tax Hike BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN The Gipper has done it again. The $98.3 billion, three-year tax increase that the House of Representatives reluctantly endorsed by a...

Challenging Corporate Efficiency (June 1982)

Challenging Corporate Efficiency Our Overloaded Economy By Wallace C. Peterson M.E. Sharpe. 240 pp. $14.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman A lonely liberal voice in the intractably conservative...

How to Become a Best Seller (May 1982)

Perspectives HOW TO BECOME A BEST SELLER BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN ON EASTER SUNDAY, a holiday I customarily ignore, I became moderately famous. The April 11 New York Times Book Review informed...

International Mischief (September 1981)

International Mischief The Care of Time By Eric Ambler Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 277pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Eric Ambler is one of those writers -Graham Greene is another-in whose...

Trials of a Bureaucrat (June 1981)

Trials of a Bureaucrat Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet By Joseph A. Califano Simon & Schuster. 474 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Unless,...

Correspondents' Correspondence (April 1981)

Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS The Democrats' Response New York by the time Ronald...

Inside a Justice's Mind (April 1981)

Inside a Justice's Mind The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter By H N Hirsch Basic 253 pp $14 95 Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This pleasantly written, concise study of Harvard Law School's apostle of...

Milestones of a Maverick Justice (November 1980)

Milestones of a Maverick Justice The Court Years: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas Random House 434pp. $16.96. Independent Journey, The Life of William O. Douglas By James P. Simon...

Journalism and the Right Crowd (September 1980)

Journalism and the Right Crowd Walter Lippmann and the American Century By Ronald Steel Atlantic Little, Brown $19.95 699pp. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Walter Lippmann entered journalism in...

Responses to "Carter and the Jews"-I (August 1980)

Responses-I Below we present the first section of responses to our Special Issue, "Carter and the Jews: An American Political Dilemma" (NL, June 30); additional sections will appear in the coming...

Death of an Anglophile (June 1980)

ATRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Death of an Anglophile ^?^hmAN April in New York City, I hear, was wet, chilly and afflicted by both a transit strike and Mayor Koch's relentlessly cheerful response to it....

Trial by Rumor (January 1980)

Trial by Rumor The Brethren By Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong Simon & Schuster. 467 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This long-awaited blockbuster and certain bestseller is so bad that...

Thoughts on Growing Old (December 1979)

Thoughts on Growing Old The View in Winter By Ronald Blythe Basic Books. 270pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Readers and admirers of Aken-field, a memorable evocation of English village...

Hard Times Ahead (October 1979)

DESPITE THE FED Hard Times ^VtlCclclBYROBERTLEKACHMAN The mess the economy is mired in can be inferred from the black humor surrounding recent important economic and political events. Although...

Of Killers and Thrillers (April 1979)

Of Killers and Thrillers_ At Buttons By Garry Wills Andrews and McMeel. 174 pp. $8.95. SS-GB By Len Deighton Knopf. 344 pp. $9.95. The Matarese Circle By Robert Ludlum Richard Marek. 601...

Carter's Dangerous Budget Act (February 1979)

PLAYING TO THE HAVES Carter's Dangerous Budget .Act by robert lekachman As political documents, President Carter's new budget ("lean and austere") and soporific State of the Union message ("We...

Missing the News (January 1979)

Missing the News A Crisis for the American Press By John Hohenberg Columbia. 316 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman John Hohenberg is a veteran journalist, teacher of journalism,...

Correspondents' Correspondence Funnny Economics (December 1978)

Correspondents^ orresponaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Funny Economics single innovation of President Carter's...

Half-Speed Ahead (December 1978)

Half-Speed Ahead_ Britain: A Future That Works By Bernard D. Nossiter Houghton Mifflin. 275 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Bernard Nossiter, London correspondent for the Washington...

Right Questions, Wrong Answers (September 1978)

Right Questions, Wrong Answers Visible Man By George Gilder Basic Books. 249pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman George Gilder is white, Republican, an alumnus of Harvard and a member of New...

Can Britain Turn the Corner? (March 1978)

REPORT FROM AN ANGLOPHILE Can Britain Turn the Corner? by ROBERT LEKACHMAN JAMES CALIAGHAN London For this Anglophile, each visit to the old country (all right, suppose my grandparents did come...

Grading Carter's Energy Offensive (May 1977)

JOBS, PRICES AND ENERGY Grading Carter's Economic Offensive BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter promised action on three economic fronts?jobs, prices and energy. The third...

Carter's Economics as Usual (January 1977)

FOUR MORE YEARS? Carter's Economics as Usual by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Late in 1962, President John F. Kennedy concluded that the American economy required further fiscal stimulation if he was to...

Profiling the Forecasters (December 1976)

Profiling the Forecasters The Economists By Leonard Silk Basic. 294 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman As SHORT-RUN forecasters, economistsat least since 1972-have been more frequently...

The Economy and the Election (September 1976)

HAUNTED BY INFLATION The Economy and the Election BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN An easily satisfied soul, President Ford believes his economic policies have been a resounding success. His Kansas City...

One Nation Under Business (May 1976)

One Nation Under Business Scarcity: A Critique of the American Economy By Gus Tyler Quadrangle. 245 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman In 1987, those of us who are still around will be...

How to Avoid Gerald Ford's Economic Nirvana (March 1976)

ADVICE FOR LIBERALS How to Avoid Gerald Ford's Economic Nirvana BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN January's rain of paper from the White House?the President's messages on the State of the Union, the budget and...

The Fragility of Racial Progress (February 1976)

Thinking Aloud THE FRAGILITY OF RACIAL PROGRESS BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN As part of the final examination in my Law and Economics course, I recently asked my students to respond at some length to the...

Perceiving the Real World (December 1975)

Perceiving the Real World The New American Ideology By George C. Lodge Knopf. 350 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman George Lodge, an Eisenhower sub-Cabinet official now teaching at the...

Banks and Beggars in New York City (September 1954)

SWALLOWING BIG MAC Banks and Beggars in New York City BY robert lekachman Let us brood together for a space upon the latest of Fun City's summer festivals, the "rescue" of the metropolis by a...

Yes, We Can Afford Full Employment (July 1975)

BREAKING THE PHILLIPS CURVE Yes, We Can Afford Full Employment BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Gerald Ford and his three calamitous counsellors, Alan Greenspan, chief economic adviser at the White House,...

Crumbs from the Upper Crust (July 1975)

Crumbs From the Upper Crust London Was Yesterday, 1934-1939 By Janet Flanner Viking. 153 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This sumptuously illustrated period piece will appeal, I...

Confirming the Case Against Nixon (May 1975)

Confirming the Case Against Nixon Before the Fall By William Safire Doubleday. 704 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman I suppose it is not astonishing that 700 pages on the late Nixon...

To England with Love and Exasperation (March 1975)

THE LAND OF PARADOX To England with Love and Exasperation BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN The first thing an American returning to England after an interval of two and a half years is likely to notice is the...

Inflation and the Control Market Economy (September 1974)

THE OLD-TIME EXTORTION Inflation and the Controlled Market Ecomony by ROBERT LEKACHMAN In the days before Richard Nixon finally surrendered with a last snarl and whimper, I began to assemble for...

Victor by Default (June 1974)

Victor by Default Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and the 'New York Review of Books' By Philip Nobile Charterhouse. 312 pp., $7.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This ill-organized...

The Truth About Economists (March 1974)

CAUGHT WITH THEIR PARAMETERS DOWN The Truth About Economists by robert lekachman This year's Federal budget, a tidy $304.4 billion, not only is the first to break the $300-billion barrier, it is...

Counting Up Grievances (February 1974)

Counting Up Grievances The Anguish of Change By Louis Harris Norton. 306 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Despite the ambitious title, this volume is neither more nor less than a set...

Focusing on the Planners (January 1974)

Focusing on the Planners Economics and the Public Purpose By John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin. 334 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman THIS is Galbraith's most important book, a tar...

Business Above the Law (October 1973)

Business Above the Law The Sovereign State of ITT By Anthony Sampson Stein & Day. 323 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Robert Lekachmart The major merit of this highly competent account of International...

The View from Below (September 1973)

The View from Below The Future as It Happened By Samuel Lubell Norton. 162 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman This brief book, fleshed out with an appendix that consists of a 1971 speech...

How to Start a Recession (July 1973)

PHASE IV AND... How to Start a Recession BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN In economic affairs as in the theater, revivals are rarely as successful as the original acts. The Phase I freeze of 1971 succeeded for...

Putting People on File (April 1973)

Putting People on File Databanks in a Free Society: Computers, Record-Keeping and Privacy By Alan F. Westin and Michael A. Baker Quadrangle. 522 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Are the...

Correspondents' Correspondence (February 1973)

Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Stone Age Economics New York last November 7 were...

The Nixon Boom (February 1973)

RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL The Nixon Boom BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN After reading each other's forecasts, the economists agree that 1973 will be a boom year. As Business Week summarized professional...

Capital Games (January 1973)

Capital Games Supermoney By Adam Smith Random House. 301 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman By now, anyone at all interested knows that "Adam Smith" in real life is George J. W. Goodman, a...

Schools, Money and Politics (September 1972)

Education Report SCHOOLS, MONEY& POUTO FINANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION ROBERT LEKACHMAN stand constitutional challenge and must fall before the equal protection clause." Wide variations of local...

In Service to Plutocracy (May 1972)

In Service to Plutocracy Nixonomics By Leonard Silk Praeger 212 pp $6 95 Reviewed by Robert Lekachman For those who do not read Leonard Silk in the New York Times, where he serves as resident...

Casualty of the War (March 1972)

Casualty of the War The Vantage Point By Lyndon Johnson Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 636 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman After a season of Richard Nixon, what is one to make of Lyndon...

A Sour View of '72 (January 1972)

PROSPECTS FOR THE ECONOMY A Sour View of '72 BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN According to the economists, 1972 promises to be a vintage year. The learned keepers of the Wharton School's prestigious...

Flawed Hero (December 1971)

Flawed Hero Kennedy Justice By Victor S Nava sky A rhenium 482 pp $10 00 Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Victor S Nava sky??s study of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General is a fascinating account of...

The Carrot and the Stick (October 1971)

The Carrot and the Stick Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare By Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward Pantheon. 389 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman IN THE...

Vouchers & Public Education: An Exchange of Views (September 1971)

Education Report VOUCHERS & PUBLIC EDUCATION AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS Christopher Jencks and Judith Areen Christopher Jencks is Director of Harvard's Center for the Study of Public Policy, which lost...

Vouchers & Public Education (July 1971)

Education Report VOUCHERS & PUBLIC EDUCATION BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Poverty programs put very little money into the hands of the poor because middle-class hands are so much more gifted at grasping...

Out of the Academic Garden (May 1971)

Out of the Academic Garden_ The Degradation of the Academic Dogma By Robert Nishet Basic Books. 252 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman ROBERT NISBET'S Utopia restored is a lovely vision,...

Vague Solutions (December 1970)

Vague Solutions Crime in America By Ramsey Clark Simon and Schuster 346 pp $6 95 Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Would Ramsey Clark make a good President' The query is not utterly an idle one,...

Nixon's Economic Game Plan (November 1970)

SUBSTITUTING CIRCUSES FOR BREAD Nixon's Economic Game Plan BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN If one listens to the economists, as I have, things are not so bad. In the last month or two I have shared a...

Sociology at the Crossroads (July 1970)

Writers &\\frjting SOCIOLOGY AT THE CROSSROADS BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN o n the very day I finished Alvin Gouldner's assault upon establishment sociology as the enemy of the people, the New York...

Problem Solving and the Poor (July 1970)

Problem Solving and the Poor The Poor Ye Need Not Have with You By Robert A. Levine MIT Press. 262 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Of the modest fraction I have read of the vast...

End of the 'Boom Without End' (June 1970)

REPRISE OF THE '50s? End of the 'Boom Without End' BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN Ask practically any economist and he will tell you in boring detail that the institutional changes stimulated by the Great...

Depression Voices (May 1970)

Depression Voices Hard Times By Studs Terkel Pantheon. 462 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Studs Terkel's Hard Times is every bit as good as its generally enthusiastic reviewers have...

A Strictly Controlled Compassion (January 1970)

A Strictly Controlled Compassion THE BUSINESS CYCLE IN A CHANGING WORLD By Arthur F. Burns National Bureau of Economic Research. 352 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKCHMAN Arthur F. Burns is...

Hard Times (January 1970)

THE NIXON ECONOMICS Hard Times BY ROBERT LEKACHMAN On December 18, just before his confirmation as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Arthur F. Burns testified before the Senate Banking...

Howling in an Elegant Wilderness (November 1969)

Howling in an Elegant Wilderness AMBASSADOR'S JOURNAL By John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin. 656 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Over the years, John Kenneth Galbraith has...

A Dim Outlook for Radicalism (April 1969)

WRITERS & WRITING A Dim Outlook for Radicalism By Robert Lekachman The Agony of the American Left (Knopf, 212 pp., $4.95), far more eloquent and searching than Christopher Lasch's earlier and...

The Moynihan Problem (February 1969)

WRITERS&WRITING The Moynihan Problem By Robert Lekachman Why should an urban expert publicly identified with social improvement and Democratic politics associate himself with a Republican...

Paul Douglas' Optimism (December 1968)

PaulDouglas' Optimism IN OUR TIME By Paul H. Douglas Harcourt, Brace & World. 228 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN After three terms in the United States Senate, Paul Douglas is still...

Man for All Seasons (October 1968)

Man for All Seasons THE BRAINS TRUST By Rexford G. Tugwell Viking. 538 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN This is a discursive memoir of the eight months before and after the day the...

More Mood Than Fact (October 1968)

More Mood Than Fact THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE By J. -J. Servan-Schreiber Atheneum. 291 pp. $6.95. THE AMERICAN EMPIRE By Amaury de Riencourt Dial. 317 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by ROBERT...

A Brave New Entry (October 1967)

A Brave New Entry NEW AMERICAN REVIEW. NO. 1 Edited by Theodore Solatoroff New American Library. 288 pp. Hardcover $4.95; paperback $.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN The welcome appearance of...

'Nay' on the Surtax (September 1967)

THINKING ALOUD 'Nay' on the Surtax By Robert Lekachman Nearly \ decade ago, when I was certainly younger and possibly more naive about the connections between taxes and politics, I wrote an...

Humane Statistics (August 1967)

Humane Statistics PROFILE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY Br Emma S Woytinsky Piaegei 601 pp $12 50 Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Despite deficiencies which Princeton's Oskar Morgenstern has most sharply...

Knowing It All (May 1967)

Knowing It All anti-politics in america By John H. Bunzel Alfred Knopf. 291 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by robert lekachman This is a good, lively tilt at the enemies of pluralist, democratic politics,...

SEASON OF DISCONTENT (February 1967)

n of Discontent By Robert Lekachman In Vietnam, as throughout the world, we seek peace but will provide all the resources needed to combat aggression. President's Budget Message Hawk, dove, or...

Seeking Clues about the President (January 1967)

Seeking Clues about the President LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE WORLD By Philip L. Geyelin Praeger. 309 pp. $5.95. LBJ: A FOREIGN OBSERVER'S VIEWPOINT By Michael Davie Duell, Sloan & Pearce. 84 pp....

Putting the Brakes on Inflation (September 1966)

A FISCAL FORMULA Putting the Brakes on Inflation By Robert Lekachman This September the American economy is experiencing the impact of last January's errors of public policy. At the start...

Progress of a Christian Realist (August 1966)

Progress of a Christian Realist MAN'S NATURE AND HIS COMMUNITIES By Reinhold Niebuhr Scribners. 224 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Throughout his long, productive, and...

Intellectual Event (June 1966)

Intellectual Event THE COMMENTARY READER Edited by Norman Podhoretz Atheneum 763 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Since otherwise selection is impossible, anniversary collections...

A Time for Taxes (March 1966)

LESSON TWO IN MODERN ECONOMICS A Time for Taxes By Robert Lekachman In the two months that have elapsed since the President sent his budget and economic messages to Congress, near consensus...

Blunting the Great Society (February 1966)

JOHNSON'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM Blunting the Great Society By Robert Lekachman The President's new economic program might have been worse. Johnson might have yielded to the conservatives inside...

Litany of Affliction (May 1965)

Litany of Affliction PEOPLE OR PERSONNEL By Paul Goodman Random House. 247 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Professor of Economics Barnard College What is there left to say about this...

Too Little of Everything (February 1965)

THE JOHNSON BUDGET Too Little of Everything By Robert Lekachman In his Budget and Economic messages, that master of positive thinking, Lyndon Johnson, has made the best possible case for the...

Minority Report (January 1965)

Minority Report TECHNOLOGY AND WOMEN'S WORK By Elizabeth Faulkner Baker Columbia. 460 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Professor of Economics, Barnard College In the American labor...

The Postponed Argument (November 1964)

JOHNSON'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM The Postponed Argument By Robert Lekachman Now that we have all exhaled a sigh of relief, now that Senator Goldwater has been retired to well-merited private life,...

The Developed and the Developing (May 1964)

The Developed and the Developing ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT By John Kenneth Galbraith Harvard University Press 103 pp. $2.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Like most other teaching and writing...

Missed Meetings (March 1964)

Missed Meetings ENCOUNTERS Selected by Melvin J. Lasky Basic Books. 552 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN One of several magazines initiated and supported by the Congress for...

On Screen (March 1964)

ON SCREEN The Strangelove of the Intellectuals By Robert Lekachman To paraphrase an immortal Jimmy Durante line, Dr. Strangelove is the toast of the intellectuals. In England the...

The Johnson Touch (February 1964)

THE PRESIDENT'S APPROACH TO ECONOMICS The Johnson Touch By Robert Lekachman AT this writing, President Johnson's special message on measures to combat poverty is yet to come. But the new...

Prospects for '64 (January 1964)

THE U.S. ECONOMY Prospects for '64 By Robert Lekachman IN this, the season of prophecy. the economic forecasters are in remarkably close agreement about the probable behavior of the...

The Radical Debate (November 1963)

The Radical Debate THE CONSERVATIVE ENEMY By C.A.R. Crostarvi Schocken Books. 251 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Professor of Economics Barnard College; author. "A History of...

A Liberal Anthology (July 1963)

A Liberal Anthology THE PAPER ECONOMY By David T. Bazelon Random House. 467 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Professor of Economics, Barnard College; author, "A History of Economic...

Kennedy and Steel (April 1963)

ACT TWO Kennedy & Steel By Robert Lekachman For a brief moment last April, President Kennedy apparently demonstrated his ability to define the public interest in the pricing policies of...

TAXES & BUDGETS (February 1963)

Taxes Budgets By Robert Lekachman In combination the State of the Union, the Budget, the Economic, and the Tax messages make explicit the grand economic design for the remainder of President...

Economics in the Mainstream (January 1963)

Economics in the Mainstream MAIN CURRENTS IN MODERN ECONOMICS By Ben B. Seligman Free Press. 887 pp. $11.75. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Associate Professor of Economics, Barnard...

Looking Backward (December 1962)

Looking Backward CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM By Milton Friedman Chicago. 202 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN Milton Friedman is one of the able economists at the University of Chicago...

Are Tax Cuts Enough? (November 1962)

BOLSTERING A SLUGGISH ECONOMY Are Tax Cuts Enough? By Robert Lekachman The approach of the holiday season conventionally stimulates the economic forecasters to confide their projections...

Status Quo Economy (October 1962)

KENNEDY'S ORTHODOX FINANCING Status Quo Economy By Robert Lekachman After 21 months of Kennedy how fares the American economy? Not well. Take unemployment first. Last January...

Good Guys and Bad Guys (September 1962)

Good Guys and Bad Guys THE ECONOMICS OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES By Seymour E. Harris Macmillan. 382 pp. $7.00. Reviewed by ROBERT LEKACHMAN In economic affairs is it really possible to tell...

Cutting Taxes and Balancing Budgets (August 1962)

A NEW LOOK AT OLD PROBLEMS Cutting Taxes and Balancing Budgets By Robert Lekachman FOR THE PROFESSIONAL Student of the American economy, this is an unusual period. It is a time of growing...

After 'Black' Monday (June 1962)

THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY After 'Black' Monday By Robert Lekachman In the past, the stock market has been a moderately good guide to the future course of business behavior. Of course, the...

England Looks Outward (April 1962)

A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK England Looks Outward By Robert Lekachman No English poet has sung of England in March, and for good reason. It would be an exaggeration to say that rain fell the whole...

Kennedy's Blueprint for Prosperity (February 1962)

CONTROLLING RECESSIONS THROUGH FLEXIBLE TAXES Kennedy's Blueprint for Prosperity By Robert Lekachman Few things that Lord Keynes wrote have been more quoted than the ringing affirmation of...

The Wagner 'Miracle' (November 1961)

NATIONAL REPORTS The Wagner 'Miracle' By Robert Lekachman At the end of his massive treatise on Governing New York City, Wallace Sayre observes that "New York can confidently ask: What other...

AID TO RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS? (June 1961)

Should the Government give Aid to Religious Schools? By Robert Lekachman The current Congressional debate over aid to education differs significantly from the hattle> on this i>Mje «d the past 15...

Analysis: Kennedy's Tax Program: (May 1961)

ANALYSIS Kennedys Tax Program By Robert Lekachman President Kennedy's tax message to Congress makes it clear that the Administration's policy is to pretend that the recession has either...

Can We Lick Unemployment?: (April 1961)

By Robert Lekachman Can We Lick Unemployment? 'Reluctance to employ the fiscal weapons of public spending and tax reduction is based either on conservatism or a misunderstanding of the...

Who Should Set Prices? (March 1961)

Who Should Set Prices? Recent antitrust suit against major electrical corporations illustrates weakness of classical theory of supply and demand By Robert Lekachman LAST MONTH, a forthright...

The Democrats' Conservatism: (February 1961)

President's new economic proposals 'have gone no further than strictly current need' The Democrats' Conservatism By Robert Lekachman Although President Kennedy has been in office now just...

Kennedy's Economics: (January 1961)

Kennedy's Economics By Robert Lekachman Current recession provides first test of new President In the words of Paul Samuelson, chairman of the President's study group on the prospects of the...

Lessons of the Steel Strike (February 1960)

Contract agreement fails to resolve problems of inflation, machinery for strike settlement and the public's interest in collective bargaining Lessons of the Steel Strike By Robert Lekachman THE...

"Oppression, Racist and Otherwise" (July 1957)

WRITERS and WRITING Oppression, Racist and Otherwise Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World. Professor of economics, Barnard College Reviewed by Robert Lekachman By E. Franklin...

Assault on Economists (April 1956)

Assault on Economists The Failure of Economics. By Sidney Schoeffler. Harvard. 254 pp. $4.75. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Department of Economics, Barnard College THIS book, a vigorous,...

LELYVELD, JOSEPH

LEMMONS, PHILIP

LEMOYNE, JAMES

LENGYEL, EMIL

Lenroot, Katharine F.

LEOF, MADELIN

LEON, LUIS AGUILAR

Leonard, Dan

LEONARD, FRANK

LEONARD, JOHN

LEONDAR, BARBARA

LERCHE, CHARLES O.