Ezra Solomon succeeded Hendrick Houthakker as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers or CEA. Solomon’s areas of responsibility included: domestic economic and financial conditions and outlook; fiscal policy and monetary policy; manpower programs; taxation and social security; as well as energy, defense, housing and national growth policy. He was also chairman of the Technical Research and Development Incentives and Resources Task Force

Ezra Solomon succeeded Hendrik Houthakker as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers on September 9, 1971. He held this position for eighteen months, resigning at the end of March 1973 in order to return to his teaching position as Professor of Finance at Stanford. As second in command at the CEA, Solomon served under Paul W. McCracken, chairman, until the close of 1971, and then under Herbert Stein. Solomon's colleagues on the CEA during this period were Sidney L. Jones, Marina von Neumann Whitman, and Gary L. Seevers. Dr. Solomon's areas of responsibility included: domestic economic and financial conditions and outlook; fiscal policy and monetary policy; manpower programs; taxation and social security; energy, defense, housing, and national growth policy. He was also chairman of the Technical Research and Development Incentives and Resources Task Force. At his farewell party in 1973, Herbert Stein, in a jocular mood, spoke of Phase Solomon, a reference to Solomon's battle to keep food prices down.

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