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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1973







Michigan, and Texas, and Carnegie-Mellon, Harvard, Stanford, and Duke Universities.

The Brookings Institution received $336,400 to study why the tax laws governing the transmission of wealth from one generation to another have apparently not distributed wealth more equally. The study assesses the effect of such tax-exempt mechanisms as charitable contributions, gifts, trusts, life insurance, and foundations on income and wealth distribution.

At Harvard University, a group of law school faculty, historians, and others became concerned two years ago over what they considered the inability of the legal system to respond to the changing needs of society and began an overhaul of the law school's research program. The Foundation this year granted $555,000 for research aimed at reform of rules and institutions of the system of justice. Suggested areas of study include the definition and regulation of antisocial conduct and the determination of basic legal rights and responsibilities.

As the ranks of black scholars grow, many are turning their attention to issues affecting black communities. The Black Economic Research Center conducts research on black economic development and provides technical assistance to groups working in that field. A Foundation grant will help black scholars conduct such studies as an assessment of federal programs to increase participation by blacks in the economy. The Joint Center for Community Studies in Los Angeles was set up with Foundation assistance by a group of academic and community leaders to provide research and technical assistance for minority businesses and community institutions.

Research on nonideological problems of natural resources, the environment, technology, and urban affairs will be the focus of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, which received a grant for housing for scientists, schooling for their children, and selected small projects not included in the regular budget. Recently organized after several years of international negotiation, the institute seeks to improve scientific cooperation among developed nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

GRANTS AND PROJECTS—EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Bristol, University of (England) [$80,000—1969] 20,000
Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) [$400,000—1968] 93,176
Center for Study and Research in Comparative Politics (Florence) [$75,000—1972] 12,500
Essex, University of (England) [$272,500—1970] 40,000
Grenoble, University of [$75,000—1972] 25,000
International Association of Students (Belgium) [$30,000—1968] 3,598
London School of Economics and Political Science 400,000
Paris I, University of [$72,000—1972] 24,000
Research and training awards to social scientists: Foundation-managed project 300,000 129,682
Social Science Research Council [$600,000—1968, 1969] 162,770
Strengthen educational, scientific, and cultural institutions in Berlin: Foundation-managed project [$125,000—1964] (2,214)
U.S.-U.S.S.R. seminar on management
Foundation-managed project: administrative costs 18,730 271
Institute of International Education 13,000 13,000
New York University 9,000 9,000
22,297,409 30,920,534
PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Black Economic Research Center
Strengthen research capability 271,000 33,875
Brookings Institution
Research on taxation and inheritance of wealth 336,400 29,712
Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies
Research on effects of private-market forces on public performance 200,000 50,000
Harvard University
Basic research at Harvard Law School 555,000
Public policy seminars and curricula (Kennedy School of Government) [$125,000—1971] 25,000
Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences
Research on social, ethical, and legal issues in medicine and biology 225,000 18,750
International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
Research on environment, technology, and urban affairs 275,000
International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
Preparation of textbook for science policy studies 36,500
Joint Center for Community Studies (Los Angeles)
Creation of research institution for the black community 152,500
Royaumont Center for A Science of Man (France)
Research on the nature of man 43,500 43,500
Study of European family programs
Foundation-managed project: research and publication 20,000 2,938
Training and research in public policy
California, University of (Berkeley) 500,000 124,500
Carnegie-Mellon University 500,000 115,436
Duke University 150,000 37,500
Harvard University 500,000 125,000
Michigan, University of 250,000 44,020
Rand Corporation 150,000 37,500
Stanford University 250,000 22,700
Texas, University of 250,000 70,000
4,664,900 780,431
Total, Education and Research $39,273,119 $45,432,693


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