Tuck School Sponsors Economic Conference

WITH the Tuck School of Business Administration as host, a Conference on Economic Growth took place at Dartmouth on June 20, 21 and 22. Twelve top economists talked to business forecasters from government, industry and education during the conference made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

One of the principal talks was given by Dr. Grover Ensley, staff director of the Joint Committee on Economic Research, who discussed past economic growth of the United States and Communist nations and then, on that basis, compared the economic outlook for the Western and Communist countries.

The opening conference address was given by Dr. Courtney C. Brown '26, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Administration, and the concluding speaker, at the June as luncheon, was Joseph S. Davis, member of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Eisenhower.

Other speakers included Prof. Daniel Hamburg of the University of Maryland; Leon Greenberg of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; John W. Kendrick of the National Bureau of Economic Research; Dexter Keezer, vice president and chief economist of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.; winfield Riefler of the Federal Reserve Board; Prof. Phillip Wernette of the University of Michigan; Gerard Colm and Manuel Helzer of the National Planning Association; and Prof. Paul McCracken of the University of Michigan.

Dean Arthur R. Upgren and Theodore A. Anderson, visiting professor and director of research, were in charge of the conference for Tuck School.