Paul Alexander Baran was an American Marxian economist. In 1951 he was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and became the only tenured Marxist teaching economics in the United States until his death in 1964. He wrote The Political Economy of Growth in 1957, and later co-authored with Paul Sweezy the economics text Monopoly Capital, published posthumously in 1966. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Paul Alexander Baran (; 30 August 1909-26 March 1964) was an American Marxian economist.
Associated With: Harvard University, Article text
In 1939, with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and just before the Nazi invasion of Poland, Baran emigrated to the U.S. where he enrolled at Harvard and received a master's degree in economics.
Associated With: Stanford University, Article text
In 1951, he was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and became the only tenured Marxist teaching economics in the U.S. until his death in 1964.
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