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- Mar. 01, 1993: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> "Shoes, booze and buttermilk." As a student at the University
- of Mississippi, Dan Goodgame had a professor who loved to relate
- the theory of supply and demand to those familiar objects of
- daily life. The lesson stuck, and today Goodgame brings a keen
- appreciation of the links between theory and reality to his
- job as TIME's national economic correspondent. "Economics is
- inextricable from politics," says Goodgame, who reported on
- Bill Clinton's sweeping economic program for this week's cover
- articles. "You can't really understand one without the other."
- </p>
- <p> Goodgame, who earned a master's degree in international relations
- as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, is well equipped for the task.
- He moved to the economics beat in January, after spending four
- years covering George Bush's White House.
- </p>
- <p> On his new beat, Dan has been startled to see top members of
- the Clinton economic team struggling with a kind of technoshock.
- "One told me he feels less well-informed today than at any other
- time in the past 10 years," Goodgame says. "People came from
- offices filled with banks of screens that flashed news and stock
- quotes from around the world. Now they're stuck with antique
- computers in a place where people still walk wire-service stories
- around by hand."
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- <p> Dan sniffs out news much faster than that: he sketched the shape
- of Clinton's program just a few days after the Inauguration.
- He realized Clinton would shy away from taxing the carbon content
- of fuel, for example, after asking the President's advisers
- whether they were willing to run afoul of Senate Appropriations
- chairman Robert Byrd, the powerful West Virginia Democrat whose
- state mines carbon-rich coal. "If you go over the options yourself
- and think about the difficulty of getting anything through Congress,
- you can see what questions to ask, and what's likely to happen,"
- Goodgame says. "That's the connection between politics and economics."
- </p>
- <p> Goodgame uses the same common-sense method to analyze the Clinton
- plan's chances of being passed. "Hardly anything a President
- does goes through Congress the way it is presented," he notes.
- "The question is whether Clinton will be able to use the bully
- pulpit to preserve the essentials of his plan. He's been a very
- good salesman so far." As the economic drama unfolds in Washington,
- we are delighted to have Dan covering all the acts.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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- </article>
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