Harvard Economist Is Accused of Trying to Steal Farm's Gross Domestic Product

Martin L. Weitzman has a Ph.D. in economics, tenure at Harvard University, and an endowed chair, but what he really wanted was a truckload of free manure.

A police officer in Rockport, Mass., said on Wednesday that Mr. Weitzman was arrested and charged with trespassing, larceny under $250, and malicious...