Paul Alexander Baran | |
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![]() Economist Paul A. Baran as he appeared in the late 1950s | |
Born | 25 August 1909 |
Died | 26 March 1964 Palo Alto, California, U.S. | (aged 54)
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Macroeconomics |
School or tradition | Neo-Marxian economics[1] |
Influences | Karl Marx, Michał Kalecki, Josef Steindl, John Kenneth Galbraith |
Contributions | Economic surplus |
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Paul Alexander Baran (/ˈbærən/; 25 August 1909 – 26 March 1964) was an American Marxist economist. In 1951 Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and Baran was the only tenured Marxian economist in the United States until his death in 1964. Baran wrote The Political Economy of Growth in 1957 and co-authored Monopoly Capital with Paul Sweezy.[3]