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Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearingsarticulates ↓Compensating policy for AI’s distributional effects

Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-28) articulates M06b. Speaker: Edwin G. Nourse, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (economist). Nourse suggests that adoption might come closer to the optimum if companies had to provide for workers' costs of change, and lists severance pay and reimbursement for time lost or skills scrapped as devices to explore.

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Date: 1955-10-28 · event
Role: Earliest located
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: In the same sentence he says the individual need not be 'carried around on a pillow' and that government should not be 'the benevolent grandmother'. He calls for study of 'properly distributing the burdens'.

Scope and limitsArgues for distributing adjustment costs, mainly through private arrangements and further study, not for a specific public redistribution scheme. 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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“I don’t believe it is desirable for the firm to appropriate the benefits of economic progress and shoulder the costs off on the worker”

Read it with this context. Nourse frames this within a stated creed: 'the individual [doesn't] need to be carried around on a pillow' and government should not be 'the benevolent grandmother'. The surrounding proposal (pp. 624-625) asks that institutions require firms to provide for the costs to workers (severance pay, reimbursement for skills scrapped). Shown alone, the quote overstates support for state redistribution.

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

Location in source printed p. 625 (statement, after discussion of guaranteed annual wage and severance pay)

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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 M06b-03 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (24 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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