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...There is more to measuring productivity than the one element of output per man-hour. What about the capital invested in more efficient equipment? What about the research which produced better production processes and the know-how which made available higher quality materials? What about the input of management, which directed and contributed to all of this effort...
...reply to the U.N. report, the United States also made use of Leontief's "input-output" analysis of the effects of American disarmament made last spring. At that time, Leontief suggested that disarmament could be undertaken with proper planning in the shift of certain industrial resources to civilian uses. The government yesterday expressed confidence that a recession like the one following the Korean War could be avoided if adequate monetary and fiscal measures were taken...
Buckminster Fuller is technology incarnate. Or at least he sounds that way. He thinks of the entire world in terms of mechanical efficiency: his speech is punctuated by "output-input ratios." Man he describes as a "regenerative consumer." And of a daughter he has written, "It was visible to me that the 1922 death of our child in her fourth year resulted from then unheeded environment process integrations of comprehensively unattended yet design preventable factors...
...twelve 6-in. jets arranged four to a side, with two at each end, and through them they pumped 2,000 cu. ft. of air a minute. The inward-facing jets created their own curtained cushion from which the air escaped at a smooth, continuous rate, equal to the input rate...
...Conference, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Science Foundation, will evaluate research techniques now in use, and attempt to establish improved international standards. Leontief believes the meeting will help eliminate wasteful duplication of input-output work, and he hopes the conference will lay the ground for further international cooperation in economics at the professional rather than the state level...