Tasks of World Recovery

Appointed Commissioner of Labor Statistics by President Wilson in 1913, the author of the following article subsequently served on numerous public commissions and from 1920 to 1923 was chief of the scientific division of the International Labor Office in Geneva. He is now president of the Index Number Institute founded by Professor Irving Fisher. As in the case of all contributions to this magazine, the opinions expressed in this article are not to be regarded as necessarily those of the editors but as of value in stimulating thought on the problems which enter into the history of our times.