TIME's Board of Economists

MEMBERS of TIME's Board of Economists meet four times a year with the editorial staff for a daylong analysis of the economy and consult regularly on individual stories. The economists speak as individuals, not as representatives of the institutions with which they are associated. The members:

OTTO ECKSTEIN, a Harvard professor and president of Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Lexington, Mass.

WALTER HELLER, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

DAVID GROVE, vice president and chief economist of IBM.

ROBERT NATHAN, president of Robert R. Nathan Associates, an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

ARTHUR OKUN, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

JOSEPH PECHMAN, director of economic studies at Brookings.

BERYL SPRINKEL, senior vice president and economist, Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago.

ROBERT TRIFFIN, professor of economics and master of Berkeley College at Yale.