About Sumner Slichter
Sumner Huber Slichter was an American economist and the first Lamont University Professor at Harvard University. An expert on unions and economic forecasting, he was well known to the public through his popular writing, and was considered by many to be the pre-eminent labor economist of the 1940s and 1950s. He was an advocate of collective bargaining, but at times supported legislation limiting unions. He was also a critic of the New Deal.
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