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...achieved, he said, 1973 can be, not just "a very good year" like 1972, but "a great year" in which the U.S. will "enter into a sustained period of strong growth, full employment and price stability." His three-member Council of Economic Advisers-Herbert Stein, Marina von Neumann Whitman and Ezra Solomon-went on to describe the prospects in a 301-page report that could best be characterized as soberly glowing...
...Administration has another reason for keeping hands off farm product prices, and Marina von Neumann Whitman, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is becoming the chief public defender of the policy. "If you prevent the market from attempting to fulfill supply and demand," she said recently, "then something is going to have to happen, like rationing." Food controls could keep prices so low that farmers would have little incentive to expand production to meet demand, so controls could lead to shortages and black markets. The words may sound convincing to housewives who remember World...
Marina von Neumann Whitman, D.H.L., member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers...
...futile, so President Nixon has long been frustrated in finding a woman to work in top Government economic councils. Last week his talent search produced results. To occupy one of the three inner-sanctum seats on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Nixon named Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman, 36, an economist at the University of Pittsburgh...
...daughter of Mathematician John von Neumann, co-developer of the theory of games, the comely Mrs. Whitman graduated from Radcliffe with the top scholastic average in her class ('56), earned a Ph.D. at Columbia, and later settled in Pittsburgh. She worked for the council as a senior staff economist in 1970-71 and last October was named to the Price Commission. There she has proved a tough and highly capable overseer of Phase II prices; she argued strongly against allowing coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved...