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Edward H. Chamberlin, assistant professor of Economics, has been granted a leave of absence for the second half of the academic year in order to serve in an advisory capacity in Washington, it was announced last night. He will work with the Committee on Government Statistics and Information Services, a bureau set up under the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...Committee with which I shall work," said Professor Chamberlin in a statement to the CRIMSON, "is not officially a part of the Administration, but acts in an advisory capacity to the various bureaus and departments of the Government. It is for this reason that it offers peculiar advantages in studying the administrative problems which have arisen in connection with the New Deal...
Professor Chamberlin's new assignment is interesting in view of the opinions he recently expressed in his chapter of "The Economics of the Recovery Program." In this chapter he advocates means of bringing about a general increase in purchasing power, not only for wage earners, but also for "farmers, dividend receivers, and business managers." The Professor is especially interested in the relation of the government and the consumer, and hopes that he will be able to work with that subject in his new position...
...ECONOMICS OF THE RECOVERY PROGRAM. Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York and London. 1934. $1.50. Depressions by Joseph A. Schumpeter, Purchasing Power by Edward Chamberlin, Controlling Industry by Edward S. Mason, Helping the Worker by Douglas V. Brown, Higher Prices by Seymour E. Harris, Helping the Farmer by Wassily W. Leontief, Economics versus Politics by Overton H. Taylor...
...contribution to the clarification of current thinking on economic questions is most heartily to be welcomed. It is, for instance, refreshing to hear some one deal with the subject of purchasing power without falling into the loose talk so characteristic of newspaper and magazine articles and political speeches. Professor Chamberlin yet the government itself is anxious that business shall be reassured, that capital shall have a chance to earn a fair return and that the volume of transactions may increase and more people shall be employed...