TIME's Board of Economists

THE stories in this section were prepared with the help of TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week with the editorial staff for a daylong session to examine domestic and international trends. The economists spoke as individuals, not as representatives of their organizations. Members of the Board are:

OTTO ECKSTEIN, Harvard professor and former member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

ALAN GREENSPAN, a consultant to President Nixon and president of Manhattan's Townsend-Greenspan & Co., economic advisers.

DAVID GROVE, vice president and chief economist of IBM.

WALTER HELLER, University of Minnesota professor and former chairman of the CEA.

ROBERT NATHAN, head of Robert R. Nathan Associates, a Washington-based economic consulting firm.

ARTHUR OKUN, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and also a former chairman of the CEA.

JOSEPH PECHMAN, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

BERYL SPRINKEL, senior vice president and economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago.

ROBERT TRIFFIN, professor of economics and master of Berkeley College at Yale and an expert on international monetary policy.

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