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Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine Monthly Review. He is best remembered for his contributions to economic theory as one of the leading Marxian economists of the second half of the 20th century. Biography.
Mar 2, 2004 · Paul M. Sweezy, a Harvard University economist who left academia and became the nation's leading Marxist intellectual and publisher during the cold war and the McCarthy era, died Saturday at his...
Oct 1, 2004 · Described by the Wall Street Journal as “the ‘dean’ of radical economics,” Paul Sweezy has more than any other single person kept Marxist economics alive in North America. 1 One work would be sufficient to have achieved this— The Theory of Capitalist Development (first published in 1942).
Oct 1, 2004 · Paul M. Sweezy, referred to by The Wall Street Journal in 1972 as “the ‘dean’ of radical economists,” was, in the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, “the most noted American Marxist scholar” of the second half of the twentieth century.1 Sweezy’s intellectual influence, which was global in its reach, lay chiefly in two ...
Aug 17, 2022 · The Marxist economist Paul Sweezy dedicated his life to understanding how capitalism works, and how it had changed since Karl Marx’s time. The big economic questions that Sweezy addressed are still fundamental for socialists today.
Mar 7, 2004 · Sweezy, 93, who died of congestive heart failure Feb. 28 in Larchmont, N.Y., went on to write “The Theory of Capitalist Development,” an introduction to Marxist economics published in...
May 1, 2011 · 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 ...
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Jan 1, 2017 · Harvard-trained economist and co-editor of Monthly Review, Paul Sweezy was among the most influential economists and Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century. His contributions extended over six decades from the early 1930s to the early 1990s.
Dec 1, 2020 · Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910–2004) was one of the most accomplished economists to come out of Harvard in the 1930s. His The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxist Political Economy (1942) is often considered the foremost work of its kind.
The Commitment of an Intellectual: Paul M. Sweezy (1910-2004) John Bellamy Foster. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-056-05-2004-09_2. Keywords: History, Marxism, Political Economy. Abstract. The following brief intellectual biography of Paul Sweezy was drafted in September 2003 shortly before I saw Paul for the last time.
