Word: ackley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roger K. Ackley, President...
...private employment agencies that have little contact with one another. The Administration has long discussed, but inexplicably failed to act upon a nationwide computer "job bank" linking all state employment offices. Those offices would draw from a central computer daily lists of jobs available all over the country. Gardner Ackley, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has suggested in addition that the Government pay the travel and moving costs of workers migrating from depressed regions like Appalachia to take jobs in more prosperous areas. At present, Ackley points out, a level of demand high enough to put people...
...making them immediately applicable. As a last resort, we could lower the value of the dollar, perhaps by permitting it to float until it found its proper relationship to other currencies. That would reduce the prices of U.S. exports in the world market and drive up import prices." GARDNER ACKLEY, former chairman (1964-68) of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. "The Administration could easily put another $8 billion to $10 billion a year into the economy. What we need are liberalized unemployment insurance benefits, accelerated tax reductions effective now, instead of in 1972 or 1973, and vigorous...
Early in the Fall, the Corporation emphatically stated its desire for a man with "a primary academic commitment." Only four of the 69 men-H. Gardner Ackley, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, George P. Shultz, director of the Bureau of Management, David E. Bell, executive vice-president of the Ford Foundation and former head of the Agency for International Development, and Lewis Branscomb, director of the National Bureau of Standards-are not presently working in a university or university related projects. Although all four have strong ties to academia, some have already been dropped from the list and the others...
...High the Cost? Most Democratic critics no longer question whether Nixon's policies are capable of slowing inflation. Instead, the Ackley-Heller-Okun paper concentrates its arguments around the theme that whatever the game plan has achieved has come much too late, with much too high a cost in production, jobs, income and investment in future growth. These economists contend that presidential guidelines on wage-price increases would have achieved success sooner and that, in order to revive the economy, the Government can afford now to spend more and expand the money supply even faster. Nixon men retort that...