Reminiscences of Joseph M. Becker : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Economist, priest.

Scope and Contents

Reasons for entering priesthood and studying economics; Columbia PhD 1951 on the social security system; research on benefits, experience rating and its effects on the economy and the unemployment insurance program, federal benefit standard, financing unemployment insurance; views on the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, organized labor, National Commission on Employment Compensation, state-federal jurisdiction over unemployment insurance programs.

Subjects

• Becker, Joseph M.
• Cooper, Evangeline W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Economists--Interviews.
• Insurance.
• Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Priesthood.
• Priests--Interviews.
• Social security--United States.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States--Economic policy--20th century.

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