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Buckingham, “Statement (testifying as an economist), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-14) bears on M06b. Speaker: Walter S. Buckingham Jr., associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (economist). Buckingham argues that automation serves consumer satisfaction, efficiency and progressiveness, but that mass purchasing power must be maintained. He also notes that automation may not create the waves of secondary investment that the automobile did. Copy claim link
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Date 1955-10-14 · event Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element States a distributional condition (sharing through wages and prices) but proposes no redistribution, tax or compensating public policy. Tier Tier 1. Prepared statement by an economist ("as an economist", associate professor at Georgia Tech, shown in the text); a substantive argued statement. Tier 1 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12 (economist testimony). Conditions Framed as a 'danger spot' for a wealthy economy that 'must continue to be reasonably equalitarian because its prosperity depends on mass purchasing power'. Scope and limits His conclusion (p. 37) asks for 'a high degree of public responsibility' from industry, labour and government. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html) only.
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Statement (testifying as an economist), 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, pp. 29–37 · 1955-10-14
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Source excerpt “If the benefits of automation are not shared with workers in the form of productivity wage increases and with consumers in the form of lower prices these mass markets will be threatened.” Location in source printed p. 36 (prepared statement, third criterion: consumer satisfaction)
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Source details and check notes Authors Walter S. Buckingham Jr. 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 Walter S. Buckingham Jr., “Statement (testifying as an economist), 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, pp. 29–37, 1955-10-14. 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 M06b-01 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (32 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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