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...chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Otto Eckstein, Harvard professor and head of Data Resources, Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., think tank, is a former member of the council, and its current chairman, Alan Greenspan, is on leave from TIME's Board. Murray Weidenbaum, who replaced Greenspan on our panel, was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration. Robert Nathan heads a private consulting firm in Washington; David Grove is chief economist at IBM; Robert Triffin, an expert in international monetary policy, is a Yale economics professor; and Beryl Sprinkel serves...
...board member most satisfied with Ford's rebate idea is Murray Weidenbaum. Says he: "There seems to be an upturn in the cards, and the rebate will make it that much more likely." His main worry is that Congress will expand the program too much. Beryl Sprinkel is wary of using tax cuts to boost the economy, because they enlarge the federal deficit. But, adds Sprinkel: "Faced with the alternative of an increase in Government spending, I would certainly favor the President's program...
Arthur M. Okun, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and Murrary L. Weidenbaum, professor of Economics at St. Louis's Washington University and a former Nixon administration assistant secretary of the Treasury, joined Eckstein in the budget committee presentation...
...fiscal conservative who is senior vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank, was the board's strongest supporter of the Administration's current economic plan. He praised Ford's avoidance of controls and stress on spending prudence. Sprinkel was echoed by Murray Weidenbaum, former Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary and now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who is the board's newest member. Republican Weidenbaum favored Ford's proposals to stimulate investment and eliminate regulatory laws that increase prices, yet he regarded the WIN button campaign as juvenile hoopla...
...broader than merely banging the drum for the "oldtime religion" of monetary and fiscal restraint. Though the battle against inflation will not be abandoned, economic policy will likely be taking on added dimensions, notably those dealing with unemployment, supply bottlenecks and the problems of the poor. Murray L. Weidenbaum Professor of Economics Washington University St. Louis The writer was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for economic policy during the Nixon Administration...