Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in the seven-year history of the award, two books were tied for honorable mention: The Real Income of Soviet Russia Since 1928, by Abram Bergson, professor of Economics; and Preface to Plato, by Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin...
...Bergson uses selected raw Soviet statistical materials to determine the Soviet GNP since start of the five-year plan. Havelock's work is a study of Plato's reaction to the Homeric tradition...
When Draftee Frène took the usual aptitude exams, he scored so high that he was given the tough officer-candidate test, which is scored from i to 20. Taken in 35 minutes, it consists of 20 quotations from such eminences as Bacon, Bergson, Darwin and Descartes, with multiple-choice questions that reflect concepts and vocabulary at U.S. graduate-school level...
Among the retarding economic forces facing the Soviet Union, Bergson listed the increasing cost of capital depreciation, the decline in available natural resources, and the labor shortages...
Offsetting these negative factors, however, will be the Soviet ability to control the rate of investment. Bergson indicated that the Russians will probably be able to raise investment rates while still satisfying some of the growing demand for consumption in the Soviet Union...