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REFERRING to the leading article on “Social and Economic Problems” in NATURE of October 28, Dr. J. F. S. Ross, principal of Wigan and District Mining and Technical College, writes: “Surely what is wanted is not the multiplication of ungainly-and probably bored-committees, but the stimulation of larger numbers of scientists to the active study of social and economic questions, so that scientific method may be utilised towards the solution of the desperately urgent problems that politicians and professional economists seem unable to solve, or even in many cases to recognise. Not a proliferation of committees is needed, but more unbiassed scientific research into the realities of politics, sociology and economics. For such work the training, knowledge and outlook of physicists, biologists and scientific engineers is an invaluable basis, and the lack of such a basis must be held responsible for the futility and unreality of much political and economic discussion.”
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Social and Economic Problems. Nature 132, 852 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132852d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132852d0