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Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearingscontests ↓Machines cheaper than labour at every task

Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-28) contests M05. Speaker: Edwin G. Nourse, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (economist). Nourse contrasts the 'preponderant attitude of business executives' with labour officials' concerns and goes on to side with labour's call for study (p. 621).

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Date: 1955-10-28 · event
Role: Contesting
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Engagement: States the contrary. Nourse endorses the business view of long-run job creation but qualifies it with severe adjustment costs.
Tier: Tier 1. Prepared statement by an economist (former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, shown in the text); a substantive argued statement. Tier 1 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12 (economist testimony).
Conditions: He adds at once that 'we need to study the fine print', given 'severe short-run dislocations, local catastrophes, and painful readjustments'.

Scope and limitsEndorses a long-run historical generalisation with explicit short-run qualifications. Matches the cached .txt. Engagement: (GPT cross-family check of 2026-10-12, accepted by the maintainer on 2026-10-12.)

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Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings

U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization. (1955). Automation and technological change: Hearings … 84th Congress, 1st session, October 14–28, 1955. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, from p. 618 · 1955-10-28

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“As a long-run prospect, I believe we are justified in accepting this evaluation.”

Read it with this context. Essential: 'this evaluation' is the business executives' view, quoted just before, that each step in mechanization has created more jobs than it destroyed. Nourse immediately adds: 'But... we need to study the fine print', citing severe short-run dislocations. The quote is unusable alone.

Why: Fresh-context audit (A1) judged that the quotation misleads when shown alone.

Location in source printed p. 620 (statement, 'From technology to economics')

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Authors: Edwin G. Nourse
Version: Internet Archive OCR text (djvu.txt) of a scanned copy, retrieved 2026-10-09 from https://ia803102.us.archive.org/32/items/congress-automation-and-technological-change/congress-automation-and-technological-changedjvu.txt; OCR errors possible; quotes checked only against clean stretches. Current copy; no earlier capture compared. SHA-256 3962809fbb923be62bf986addb0014ee147934a8767475c1f7cfe051959bff90.
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Accessed: 2026-10-09
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Attribution: Edwin G. Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings”, U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization. (1955). Automation and technological change: Hearings … 84th Congress, 1st session, October 14–28, 1955. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, from p. 618, 1955-10-28.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage M05-04 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (13 words) matched the retrieved current copy (SHA-256 3962809fbb923be62bf986addb0014ee147934a8767475c1f7cfe051959bff90) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day.

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