Volume 7, Number 10 · December 15, 1966
Primer for the Great Society
By Wassily Leontief
Technology and the American Economy: Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress
Government Printing Office, 115 pp., 75c
The Commission that has issued this Report was established in August 1964 by an Act of Congress. The United States economy was then already booming. The percentage of total labor force unemployed, while gradually declining, was however still a high 5 percent as against the 4 per cent declared by the Council of Economic Advisers to be normal. Automation was the topic of the day.
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