Ben Baruch Seligman ( born Ben Baruch Seligman ; November 20, 1912 , Newark, NJ - October 23, 1970 ) is an American economist , professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a specialist in the history of economic thought .
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| Scientific field | economy |
| Place of work | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Awards and prizes | Veblen - Commons Award 1970 |
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Biography
Born November 20, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey.
In 1934 he graduated with honors from Brooklyn College , in 1936 he received a master's degree from Columbia University [1] .
In 1940-1941, Ben continued his studies at the New School for Social Research , at the same time he taught in high school. In 1942-1945 he worked as an analyst in the Office of Price Control . In 1945-1946 he served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Labor and Nation. He began teaching at Brooklyn College in 1947-1949. Since 1948, Ben has been a member of the American Economic Association . In 1946-1953 he was an economist of the trade union organization of the Council of Jewish Organizations , and in 1953-1955 he supervised the public works of the Committee of Jewish Labor . Since 1956, he worked as an international relations analyst for the trade union movement of the Union of Automobile Workers , and in 1957-1965 he was director of the Department of Education and Research of the International Union of Retail Clerks [2] .
Since 1965, professor of economics and director of the research center for labor relations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2] .
He died on October 23, 1970.
Rewards
- 1970 - Veblen — Commons Award from the Association for Evolutionary Economics .
Compositions
- The main trends of modern economic thought . - M .: Progress , 1968 .-- 600 p. (English Main Currents of Modern Economics: Economic Thought Since 1870 , 1962).
- Powerful: business and businessmen in American history. - M.: Progress, 1976 ( The Potentates: Business and Businessmen in American History , 1971).
- Poverty as a public issue, NY, 1963.
- Most notorious victory. Man in an age of automation, NY, 1966.
- Permanent poverty. An American syndrome, Chicago, 1968.
Notes
- ↑ Seligman Ben Baruch // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ 1 2 Stabile DR Automation, workers and union decline: Ben Seligman's contribution to the institutional economics of labor // Labor History Vol. 49, No. 3. - August 2008. - P. 275–295. - DOI : 10.1080 / 00236560802155969 .