Contributors

LOWELL B. MASON, LL.B., LL.D., Attorney. He has been As sistant Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, a member of the Illinois State Senate, and counsel to two subcommittee; of the United States Senate. In 1945 he was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the Federal Trade Commission and was reappointed in 1949 for a seven-year term. Commissioner Mason is the author of The Language of Di'.ssent~ and is now a practicing attorney in Washington, D. C. v vi Contributors JEROME WILSON MILLIMAN, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Indiana University, on leave with Re sources for the Future, Inc., during 1962-63. He is a former consultant on water resource economics to the National Planning Association and to the RAND Corporation; currently he is consultant to the Committee for Economic Development on area redevelopment. He has written a number of articles in professional journals and (with Jack Hirshleifer and James De Haven) Water Supply: Eco nomics) Technology} and Policy (1960).

SYLVESTER PETRO, Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and member of the Illinois bar. He is a specialist in labor and antitrust law, and a contributor to legal and other periodicals. Among his books are: The Labor Policy of the Free Society (1957), Power Un limited: The Corruption of Union Leadership (1959), and The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administra tive Law (1961). J. FRED RIPPY, Professor Emeritus of American History, Univer sity of Chicago. He is the author of several books on the history and foreign relations of the Americas, includ ing Globe and Hemisphere (1958), Latin America: A Modern History (1958), and British Investments in Latin America (1959). WILSON E. SCHMIDT} Professor of Economics, The George Wash ington University, where he has been teaching since 1950. He has been a consultant to various organizations, includ ing the Indus trial College of the Armed Forces and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

In addition to many articles, he has written (with J. N. Behrman) International Economics: Theory) Practice) Policy (1957).

Contributors vii ARTHUR A. SHENFIELD, Economic Director of the Federation of British Industries since 1955. He has served as assistant editor of the London and Cambridge Economic Service, lecturer in economics at the University of Birmingham, economic adviser to the government of Trinidad, chair man of commissions of enquiry, and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, and was in active practice at the English bar. He has lectured on British economic affairs in various countries and is the author of numerous essays and articles on economic questions, and, in particular, reports on economic problems in the British Caribbean. He is Ford Foundation Visiting Professor in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business for 1963. GEORGE J. STIGLER, Walgreen Professor of American Institutions, University of Chicago, and President-elect of the American Economic Association. He is the author of six books, in cluding Theory of Price and Production and Distribution Theories} and was chairman of the Price Statistics Review Committee, whose report was recently published by the Joint Economic Committee.

WILLIAM S. STOKES, Senior Professor of Comparative Political In stitutions at Claremont Men's College and the Claremont Graduate School. He was chairman of the Latin American Affairs Committee of the American Political Science Association and has conducted research in all the Latin American countries, leading to over two hundred publica tions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Before accept ing an endowed chair at Claremont Men's College, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Stokes has lectured at many Latin Ameri can institutions of higher learning. His books are: Hon duras: An Area Study in Government (1950) and Latin American Politics (1959).

viii Contributors ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG, Professor of Social Philosophy at New York University and lecturer at the New School for Social Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society and of the American Sociological Association. In addition to many articles, his books include Education as an Industry) The Fabric of Society (1957) (with Ralph Ross) and Passion and Social Control (1963). ELISEO VIVAS, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University. He is associate edi.. tor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. He has worked in the field of ethics and aesthetics and is now occupied with problems of philosophical anthropology or philosophy of culture. A contributor to technical jour nals and literary reviews, he has written The Moral Life and the Ethical Life (1950), Creation and DiscoV'ery (1955), and D. H. Lawrence: The Failure and the Triumph of Art.

W. ALLEN WALLIS, President of the University of Rochester and Professor of Economics and Statistics. He is Chairman of the Editorial and Advisory Board and of the Executive Committee of the new Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Professor of Statistics and Economics at the University of Chicago, he has served on the staffs of Yale University, Stanford University, Columbia University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the National Resources Committee, and the Ford Foundation. He spent two years at the White House, where he was a special assistant to President Eisenhower. He has served as editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association) is co author of several books, including Statistics: A New Approach) and has published numerous technical articles on statistics and economics.