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After the June meeting, MIT economists Edwin Kuh (an informal McGovern adviser since 1968) and Lester Thurow began developing McGovern's tax reform proposals. On his own, Weil began looking into the issue of welfare reform, seeking occasional advice from Kuh and Nancy Amaday, a staffer on McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition...
Weil sent Kuh a copy of the Fair Share plan and asked him to look it over and show it to members of the June economics advisory group. He says Kuh reported back to him that he had done so and that the group though the plan was "reasonable...even attractive...
...Kuh says this is a "lie." He looked over the Fair Share plan but "couldn't figure it out...it was just scraps of paper (to me)" he said. But it looked to him like a "credit income tax" scheme James Tobin had outlined in an article in the Brookings Institution's 1968 Agenda for the Nation. This, he says, is what he told Weil...
...Edwin Kuh, professor of Economics at MIT and Stanley Surrey, Smith professor of Law were instrumental in the drafting of McGovern's revised economic proposals. Paul Samuelson, a colleague of Kuh's worked with him on the draft, but has not been as active in this campaign as he had been in the past for Democratic candidates. "I'm working on the ninth revision of my textbook now no I really don't have the time to be as active as I was for Jack Kennedy," Samuelson said. "I'll probably confine my activities to talking to financial groups...
MARC ROBERTS, 29, is an associate professor at Harvard and a close friend of both Thurow and Kuh, who helped recruit him. A specialist in the economics of pollution control, Roberts has also worked on figuring the costs of McGovern's "conversion" program-the job retraining and unemployment payments to defense workers that will be necessary if the Pentagon's budget is cut by $32 billion, as McGovern proposes. Roberts is hardly a youthful radical. One reason that he likes McGovern, he says, is that the Senator "has absorbed the lesson of the past 20 years that...