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

Nourse, “Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings” (1955-10-28) bears on M06b. Speaker: Edwin G. Nourse, former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (economist). Nourse rejects the view that technological progress 'takes care of its own economic problems'. Responding to members' and staff questions on automation-specific legislation.

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Date: 1955-10-28 · event
Role: Context
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction
Missing element: (M06b-02) A general call for generous policies to assimilate technological change, not a specific compensating policy. (M06b-04) Answers whether to legislate on 'the problems created by so-called automation'. He rejects legislation that would 'curb or redirect' discovery and its application, not compensating policy as such.
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: (M06b-02) Argued against the 'comfortable formula' that falling prices automatically restore jobs. That formula presupposes perfect competition and labour mobility, which do not hold in an economy of large corporations, unions and administered prices. (M06b-04) He immediately adds that every money bill, tax revision and regulatory measure gives 'punchcard or tape instructions' to the economy, and that general public policy should be framed accordingly.

Scope and limits(First passage) General policy argument about assimilating technological change (including automation). It names no specific instrument here; on p. 625 he raises guaranteed annual wages, severance pay and reimbursement for skills scrapped as matters for study. Matches the cached .txt. (Second passage) Do not cite as Nourse rejecting distributional policy. The same page supports exploring cost-sharing devices. 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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“The smooth and beneficent assimilation of sharp and rapid technological change has to be effectuated through intelligent and even generous policies painstakingly arrived at by administrative agencies, private and public.”

Location in source printed p. 622 (statement, 'Integration of the economic process')

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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
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 M06b-02 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (30 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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Statement (former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers), in Automation and Technological Change: Hearings

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“The answer, I think, is an unqualified “No.”

Read it with this context. Essential: the question answered is whether legislation should be recommended specifically to deal with the problems of 'so-called automation'. Nourse continues 'Nonetheless...': fiscal, tax and regulatory policy should be framed for maximum production, employment and purchasing power. He rejects automation-specific legislation, not all compensating policy.

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

Location in source printed p. 625 (statement)

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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
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 M06b-04 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (8 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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