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Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics and chairman of the Economics Department, says now that the bureau has moved to Cambridge, he suspects more professors work there than at any other research institute. "All professors do research, and really, the bureau is just one vehicle through which to do it. It probably diverts them less than some other activities," he says...
Further, the reforms propose that every fulltime professor teach a minimum of one tutorial per term, insuring active participation by Faculty in undergraduate education on a basic level. Finally, the legislation suggests that large departments offer special junior seminars led by Faculty members, giving students a choice of taking a more intimate tutorial with a graduate student or working with an experienced Faculty member in a larger group...
When the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) moved to Cambridge two years ago at the order of newly-chosen president Martin S. Feldstein, professor of Economics, 14 other professors began to exit Littauer regularly for offices on Cambridge Street, with some two dozen students...
...between the bureau and Harvard is fairly close now because Feldstein is president and has rebuilt the bureau around a younger generation," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and Harvard's appointee to the NBER's Board of Directors, says. "He has attracted a group of young scholars, many from Harvard--bright, capable people still in their creative years...
Wesly Clair Mitchell, a professor at Columbia and the first president of the NBER, chartered the bureau in 1920 as an organization "devoted to objective quantitative analysis of the American economy." That quantitative analysis included the compilation of statistics on the business cycle and labor supply. The bureau began amassing information like flow of fund accounts and national income accounts for the government to use in fiscal planning...