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Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-28) articulates M06a. Speaker: Edwin G. Nourse, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (economist). Nourse asks whether automation will disturb the price-and-income relations behind the postwar prosperity, and lists its effects on wages, capital, costs, prices, profits and taxes. Copy claim link
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Date 1955-10-28 · event Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction 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 Mixed effects: the sentence continues that wage rates will be 'upgraded here and downgraded there'. Scope and limits Applies to some groups and places, not aggregate employment. The quote stops before a line-break hyphen ('down¬graded'). Matches the cached .txt.
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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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Source excerpt “It is evident that it will change wage income both by number of jobs — some places up and some places down” Location in source printed p. 620 (statement, 'From technology to economics')
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Source details and check notes 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. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-09 Language English (en) 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. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage M06a-03 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (22 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. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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