Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
ECONOMIC PLANNING
Digests of resolutions adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis
between 1889 and 1974
1. We are impatient with an economic order that seems periodically destined to
bring
the misery of unemployment; within the potentialities of our American
democratic
system there lies the power of the masses of
the people, when properly apprised of the facts, to change these conditions by
orderly
procedure. We heartily endorse such changes as would bring about a curbing of
the
greed which the present profit system makes inevitable. (1932, p. 97)
2. We advocate the formation of an Economic Council brought about by
government initiative
and composed of representatives of industry, agriculture, labor, the
professions
and the government, so that the benefits of individual enterprise may be best
preserved with due regard for the economic security of the masses. (1939, p.
158)