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But the genius award undoubtedly goes to Lester Thurow, economist and well-known author, who, as late as 1989, wrote, “Can economic command significantly ... accelerate the growth process? The remarkable performance of the Soviet Union suggests that it can. Today it is a country whose economic achievements bear comparison with those of the United States.”

by Mark Finkelstein August 31, 2006 - 09:27 If the Today show were ever to air the opinions of a think tank founded, say, by a former Reagan administration official and free-market economist Milton Friedman, and funded by large corporations, it's inconceivable that the show would have failed to identify the organization's conservative leanings. Yet Today didn't feel the need to do the obverse when relying extensively on a liberal think tank founded by a former Clinton official and far-left economists and largely funded by Big Labor. From a New York Times editorial to a Boston Globe political cartoon, the...

<p>Nearly a quarter century ago, Lester C. Thurow warned in "The Zero-Sum Society" that the stagnant US economy would have to make painful structural changes to preserve growth and rising living standards. Now he is making a similar argument about the global economy in a new book, "Fortune Favors the Bold."</p>