Right Place, Right Times.(social policy of the New York Times newspaper)(Brief Article)

Careful readers of a very brief item in a recent issue of The New York Times may have been a little startled to learn that the latest addition to the Times editorial board is a 26-year-old prodigy named Daniel Altman. He succeeds Michael Weinstein, whose editorials on issues such as managed care, trade, and regulation had a relentlessly pro-market orientation.

Altman's pedigree does not portend change for the better: He trained at the Harvard University Economics Department (A.B., 1996; Ph.D., 2000), where his adviser was Martin Feldstein, the prominent conservative pamphleteer who ...

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