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BPEA | 1972 No. 31972, No. 3
THIS IS THE NINTH ISSUE OF Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, a publication that appears three times a year and contains the articles, reports, and highlights of the discussion from conferences of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. Financed by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Alex C. Walker Foundation, the panel was formed to promote professional research and analysis of key developmentsin U.S. economic activity. Prosperity and price stability are its basic subjects.