Economic Profile

1. Principles and Politics

- Alice Rivlin, who by 1994 had already built a long and distinguished career in washington. Rivlin's opinions about the role of government in the nation's economy had gained her a reputations as a tough, nonpolitical economic analyst.

2. A Career in Public Service

- When Alice Rivlin was a teenager, she wanted to be a diplomat. After taking an economics course in college however, she decided on that field instead. Rivlin's talent for analyzing government policy emerged in 1957, when she worked at the Brooking's Institution, a Washington "think tank" that researches social issues.

3. Rethinking Government's Role

-Rivlin shuns both direct federal spending and tax policy as ways to stimulate economic growth. She prefers programs that increase overall productivity. Rivlin also questions, in general, the federal government's role in the business sector.

 

 

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