In this work Gross aim was to develop a theoretical structure, a systematic method of thinking about legislation. The Legislative Struggle from 1978 is a study of, what Gross called, the social combat. , in: "Time" magazine, Friday, September 16, 1966.] Rarely are sociological ideas so rapidly translated from print into action, but then Transaction is no ordinary sociological publication. LBJ instructed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to develop a study of "social indicators" along the lines Gross had suggested. His ideas were incorporated into a speech President Lyndon B. Gross was summoned back to the White House. To reflect the quality as well as the quantity of American life, Gross said, the President should deliver an annual " Social report" that deals in the round with the state of education, arts, crime and disease in the U.S. The message relied too heavily on economic bookkeeping, too little on social accounting. In a magazine called "Transaction" in 1966 Gross charged, that the President's State of the Union message was a barely recognizable description of the U.S. Since 1999, the campaign to abolish poverty/full employment Coalition presents the Annual Bertram Gross Award. He was the father of physicist and Nobel prize winner David J. In the 1980s he became Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center). In 1970 Bertram Gross was president of the Society for General Systems Research. In 1961-62 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and in 1962-63 he was the Leatherbee Lecturer at the Harvard Business School.
] He returned in the 1960s and joined the faculty of Syracuse University in the Maxwell School. In the 1950s he moved with his family to Israel where he served as an economic advisor in the Prime Minister's Office and as a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, where he established their program in Public Administration. Gross served as its first executive secretary, an administrative post. This legislation also created the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and from 1946 to 1952 Mr. In that capacity he wrote the Roosevelt-Truman full employment bills of 19, legislation that articulated for the first time that full employment at a living wage should be a national priority. From 1941 to 1945 he served on the staffs of a number of Senate committees.
He played an important role in crafting policies and legislation that were cornerstones of the New Deal. He is known from his book "Friendly Fascism" from 1980 and as primary author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.īertram Gross was born in the United States in 1912. Bertram Myron Gross (1912-1997) was an American social scientist, federal bureaucrat and professor of political science at Hunter College (CUNY).
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