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Article: NABE presidential address: building improved official statistics for decisionmaking. (National Association of Business Economists) (Transcript)
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- Business Economics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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IT HAS BEEN a great honor to serve as your president during the past year. Throughout more than thirty years of membership in NABE, I have been impressed with the caliber of the membership, the professional contribution of the association and with the influence of the business economist in making key contributions to their individual organizations. In 1985, Dave Williams, NABE Executive Secretary-Treasurer, asked me to start a new committee -- the Statistics Committee -- in response to a recognition that the basic data of the business economist, the national economic statistics of the federal government, were in need of improvement and were being threatened by critical ...