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from the American students as regards the kind of speed to use and
in the formulation of technical problems.
These were also the years when scholars would visit the Center
for a very short period and meet with the Center's director
and/or all the staff for a chat. 8 The list of scholars includes:
Gardner Ackley, Paul H. Rosenstein-Rodan, H. B. Chenery,
Richard Westebee, R. Eckause, Martin Bronfenbrenner,
Zvi Griliches.
What do all these names have to do with training at the
Center? A great deal. First, Holis Chenery, the Assistant Administrator
of the Agency for International Development, was instrumental
in shaping Papandreou's monograph on planning (1962).
Second, Martin Bronfenbrenner, an economic adviser, US Economic
Mission to Japan, particularly inspired by Japan's success
with productivity, told us two things: Japan's statistical data was
reliable and Japan had elevated quality control to a high level due
to Dr. Deming. 9
Much might be written about the Center's commitment to
scholarships, and not least about the importance of the links
between the Center and the Government of Greece. What follows
touches mostly on one point.
In late 1962, for instance, the Center obtained five OECD
scholarships through the Ministry of Economic Coordination. The
trainees studied statistics and planning in Western European institutes,
returned to Greece, rejoined the Center and published some
materials. 10 But the training was only for six months and two of
the returned juniors decided to pursue further graduate studies in
the United States. Again, the Center lent a hand.
Conclusions
The Center of Economic Research, also known as The Center
of Planning and Economic Research, was founded by Papandreou
in 1961, giving the opportunity to a large number of its junior fellows
to study overseas in the 1960s. Almost all of them have
returned to Greece and worked at the top of universities, government
agencies and private enterprises. They have also been active
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