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The author is a member of the
American Economic Association, a
vice-president of the American Farm
Economic Association, and an
economic consultant to the U.S.
State Department. In 1955,
as a member of the American
agricultural delegation to the Soviet
Union, he spent five weeks in Russia
studying its economy.
by Dr. D. Gal Johnson
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Economists are like weathermen. As long as the
weather (or the economy) is good, no one pays
any attention to them. As soon as it gets bad,
they're bums.
I don't want to take time to argue that economists
have as little to do with our economic ujft and downs as
the weatherman with weather. I'll merely point out that
we just study the economic variations, we don't cause
them. The weatherman, in fact, is in a better position to
predict what's going to happen, or explain what did
happen, than we are. He's dealing with Mother Nature.
a relatively stable old girl. We're dealing with her un
predictable offspring Man who is infinite in his
variety.
At the root of our current problem is the old law of
supply and demand, a law based on the nature of man,
not of the elements. Nor is it a law of government it
cannot be repealed. It's the balance between what man
produces and what he wants. At the moment, he's
produced more than he wants.
I mention all this because, now that we're in the midst
of another recession (or whatever you choose to call it),
people are noticing economists again for the first time
in about five years and asking questions which have no
hard-and-fast answers. We can't say in a few words
"What happened?" or "Who goofed?"
Family Weekly, July 27, 195)
In general, however, the facts are that nobody goofed
and what happened was a natural end to another period
of our economic history. What goes up must come down
a little bit anyway. The supply has caught up with the
demand temporarily, at least. If those who worry
about the recession understood the economy better,
they'd be more apt to ask, "All right, the boom is over.
How bad was the bust? How good is the economy now?
What will it be like in the future?"
These questions are easier to answer, and the answers
are much more to the point. It's the difference between
looking for someone to blame for what we may have
lost, and remembering what we still have including
many things we didn't have before and working for
what we can still get.
Regarding the recession, or the bust that ended the
boom, I can say this much: it's no worse than the last
two in 1948-49 and 1953-54, both of which were fast and
mild. Most economists including myself consider such
recessions as necessary periods of readjustment. Or, as
one top-level Government official said recently, "No
economy can run at full steam all the time. It has to
stop periodically to get its breath."
Now, I realize that this is no consolation to a man
who has ost his job and has bills to pay and a famUy to
feed But, lets face it, even the healthiest economy-or
family-suffers some periods of illness. We can sympa-
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last three recessions were only Summer colds affecting a
few compared w.th the depression of the '30s, an epi
demic which infected nearly everyone. And all three
recessions while following somewhat similar patterns,
explaTn" "S' maki"g eVe" more di"icuU
Let's take a few examples. The manufacturing in
K 7ltbly automobil. taking the worst beat-
unT,V CUrrent Crisis' Farm income- meantime,
is up about 12 percent
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