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THE annual report for 1944-45 of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research*, referring to the steps taken to execute the research policy for the immediate post-war years outlined in the previous report, refers to an inquiry into distribution for the planning, direction and organisation of which Mr. Hugh Weeks is responsible as chairman of a small technical committee. A second step is the decision to start a study of the building industry, for which purpose Mr. I. Bowen has accepted an appointment as research associate. The further development of the Institute's research policy depends upon the availability of trained applied economists who possess the experience and maturity for handling large-scale projects. With minor exceptions, there have been in Britain no trained economists coming from the universities for five years, while the demand for applied economists is not falling off with the end of the War. The year that has passed since the Institute's post-war research policy was outlined confirms the prediction then made that demands for guidance would be made on an unprecedented scale.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH. Nature 158, 208–209 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158208a0
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