Letters

Editors:

I was impressed by Bob Kuttner’s article, “Jobs,” in the Winter 1984 Dissent. I was struck by the boldness and simplicity of the “procurement” approach to full employment and economic growth. Pointing first to the experience of World War II—when, through government procurement contracts, not only the military but the civilian economy as well received an unprecedented growth stimulus—Kuttner provokes the reader into imagining what could be don...