Paul A. Baran Bio

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Baran, Paul A. (1909-1964), Marxist Economist, professor at Stanford, 1949-1964.

• Author of The Political Economy of Growth (1957)
• Co-author of Monopoly Capital (with Paul Sweezy, 1966)
• Marcuse and Baran knew each other since the early 1930s and corresponded from 1948 until Baran's death in 1964. Letters the two exchanged from 1948 to 1963 were republished in 2014 in the Monthly Review.
  • Herbert's son Peter commented on this correspondence in June 2014 on his blog, "Blog #51 The Baran-Marcuse letters – Not Just the Facts, in Critical Social Science," which was republished on the MR website as: "The Baran-Marcuse Letters: 'The Truth Is the Whole'."
• Herbert gave a talk in 1966 at a Stanford conference in honor of Baran: "Baran's Critique of Modern Society and of the Social Sciences," (republished by the Monthly Review in 2014).

Other Resources

• Baran's critique of modern society and of the social sciences - Monthly Review 65:10