Memo from To:

Ken A
JOSHUA LEDERBERG en Arrow

MAR 26 1971
your letter of Mar. 8 etc.

-I.will be less a wear on-you if I pursue my
questions informally when I see you. And when
I do my homework, that you recommend.

My question about ‘empirical evidence on economic
behavior!’ had to do with pexerinedxxaiuexef the
kind of provision that people do make for future
generations; M&powever, I see what you mean in re
‘savings’ as a measure of the stock put into,
deferred gratification, as a diStnit pst, .

I wotld almost rather listen than talk at the
seminar to which.you invite me. I will take the

--invitation very.seriously, and ponder upon -pos-
~sible times to take it up. =. - Ste

See you in April, ©

P.S. If nominations are still open, have you
- considered Myron Tribus for the directorship

of the Institute on applications of cybernetics

or whatever to xp problems of advanced society...

(Paul Sitton called me about this from NAS) /re
the meeting you may have had on 3/23.) Tribus is
-a V.P. of Xerox (Rochester) just new, recently
Asst. Secy Commerce (Sci & Techn.) and before thal
Dean of Engrg. at Dartmouth. His specialty is
decision analysis; his general grasp of systems

impressed me very much; he certainly is a force-
£ - ersonality.

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305