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Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer, Posthumous Recipient. An Internet pioneer, Paul Baran invented packet switching techniques that can be credited with playing a key role in the development of the Internet. Born in Poland, Paul immigrated to the US, where he graduated from Drexel University in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy were two of the leading Marxist economists of the twentieth century. Their seminal work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, published in 1966, two years after Baran’s death, was in many respects the culmination of fifteen years of correspondence between the two, from 1949 to 1964.
Paul M. Sweezy co-founded Monthly Review in 1949, and, with Paul A. Baran, developed the fundamental analysis of accumulation under monopoly capitalism. Baran’s The Political Economy of Growth, published in 1957, set the template for understanding imperialism in the latter part of the twentieth century—an argument that was to be further ...
Paul M. Sweezy was born in New York City in 1910 (the same year as Baran), the son of a Wall Street banker. Educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics, Sweezy worked for various New Deal agencies but dropped out of academia when it became clear that he would not be granted tenure at Harvard.
Background. Paul Alexander Baran was a professor of economics at Stanford from 1949 until his death of a heart attack in 1964. His most important works were The Political Economy of Growth (1957), and Monopoly Capital (1965), co-authored with Paul M. Sweezy. Paul Baran was an expert in comparative economic systems (capitalism and socialism ...
Economic development has always entailed big changes in the social and political structure of society and Professor Baran explains the present turmoil in the world as the necessary accompaniment of processes as radical as the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Genres EconomicsNonfictionPhilosophy. Paperback. First published January 1, 1957.
Paul Baran was an expert in comparative economic systems (capitalism and socialism), and considered himself a Marxist. Born in Nikolaev, Russia, in 1909, Baran received his education in Germany, obtaining a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Berlin in 1931.
