Volume 6, Number 4 · March 17, 1966
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Robert L. Heilbroner
The Shape of Automation
by Herbert Simon
Harper & Row, 111 pp., $3.95
The Guaranteed Income: Next Step in Economic Evolution?
edited by Robert Theobald
Doubleday, 233 pp., $4.95
The problem of technological unemployment will, I suspect, haunt us for the rest of our lives. I do not mean that at every moment it is going to be the paramount economic problem—as it is not, for example, at present when we are threatened with war-induced inflation. But, I believe that a persistent cloud of technological displacement will nonetheless hover over the future of capitalism, and proposals to remedy it will accordingly provide us with fare for our reformist appetites for a long time to come.
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