Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and one of the leading agricultural economists in the country, has been named associate director of the division of program planning in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
The division of program planning is a new body of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and will be directed by H. R. Tolley, formerly of the University of California. Dr. Ezekiel’s appointment as associate director to work with Dr. Tolley brings together two men who are outstanding in the field of agricultural economics.
While Dr. Tolley will have general supervision over the work of the division, most of the activities will be directly in charge of Dr. Ezekiel. The division will include the functions of formulating a national land policy, planning agricultural production, planning for expansion of markets and establishing more orderly systems of marketing, and developing import and export trade in agricultural products.
WILL REPRESENT U. S.
Dr. Ezekiel has already done a great deal of work in connection with the Administration’s drive to improve the position of the American farmer. On April 5, when the International Wheat Advisory Committee meets in Rome, Dr. Ezekiel will be on hand to represent the United States. Discussions will center around ways in which countries signatory to the International Wheat Agreement will carry out terms which call for reduction of wheat acreage for 1934.
Although the office of associate director of the division of program planning will occupy most of his time, Dr. Ezekiel will continue to act as economic adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. Before this appointment Dr. Ezekiel was assistant chief economist of the Federal Farm Board since 1930. Before that he was with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture.
While with the Federal Farm Board staff Doctor Ezekiel was on leave for a year and studied in Europe under a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of several departmental publications, and many articles both popular and technical, as well as a statistical textbook.
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