Bertram Myron Gross

Bertram Myron Gross (1912–1997) was an American social scientist, federal bureaucrat and professor of political science at Hunter College (CUNY). He is known from his book Friendly Fascism from 1980 and as primary author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.

Bertram Gross was born in the United States in 1912. He played an important role in crafting policies and legislation that were cornerstones of the New Deal. From 1941 to 1945 he served on the staffs of a number of Senate committees. In that capacity he wrote the Roosevelt-Truman full employment bills of 1944 and 1945, legislation that articulated for the first time that full employment at a living wage should be a national priority. This legislation also created the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and from 1946 to 1952 Gross served as its first executive secretary, an administrative post.

In the 1950s he moved with his family to Israel where he served as an economic advisor in the Prime Minister's Office and as a Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, where he established their program in Public Administration.[1] He returned in the 1960s and joined the faculty of Syracuse University in the Maxwell School. In 1961-62 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and in 1962-63 he was the Leatherbee Lecturer at the Harvard Business School.

In 1970 Bertram Gross was president of the Society for General Systems Research[2]. In the 1980s he became Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

He was the father of physicist and Nobel prize winner David J. Gross. Since 1999, the campaign to abolish poverty/full employment Coalition presents the Annual Bertram Gross Award.





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