"Environment is heart and economics is head, and to motivate everyone, you need to combine the two".
My mother worked as an educator all her life, teaching home economics and Head Start and, most recently, administering a university distance learning program for adults.
A related panel on economics is headed by Dr. Irwin Kellner, an economist at Hofstra and chief economist of CBS Marketwatch.
His first act after the election was to appoint an economics team headed by the people who caused the crash: the Clinton-era deregulators and the former heads of Goldman.
"It's too early to say how one judges the last five years of reform," said John Vickers, an Oxford professor of economics who headed Britain's commission on overhauling banks.
"We are talking about billions of dollars," said Deputy Prime Minister Slavko Linic, who is responsible for economics and heads a commission investigating corruption.
Four years later, Mr. Durst graduated from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania with a degree in economics and headed off to California, where he enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Dr. Gramm, who holds a Ph.D. in economics, now heads a regulatory studies center at George Mason University, which has been in the forefront of the push for deregulation in Washington.
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He never earned an A in college (though he did get an A/ in entomology), but he was an earnest, serious young man and he went on to get a Ph.D. in economics before heading off to a career at Chase, a bank with longstanding family ties.
