Guide to the Paul Alexander Baran Papers SC1234
1909-08-25 | Paul Alexander Baran (PAB) is born in Nikolaev, Ukraine. On all official documents, PAB's birthday is the above date, but he maintained that this was an error, and that his real birthday was December 8, 1910, which is the date he and his family celebrated. |
1926 | Baran graduates from German Gymnasium in Dresden, to where he had moved with his parents in 1921, and returns to USSR, where he enrolls in the Plekhanov (Karl Marx) Institute of Economics at the University of Moscow. |
1928-1932 | Baran returns to Germany, completes his graduate studies in Berlin, Breslau, and Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research, writes for Rudolf Hilferding's "Die Gesellschaft" under the pen name "Alexander Gabriel." Earns Diplom Volkswirt (Master's Degree in Political Economy) and Dr. Phil. from Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. |
1934-1935 | Baran returns to USSR to visit his parents, but after several months, leaves for Vilna, Poland, where he has relatives, due to political situation in USSR. |
1935-1938 | Baran works for his uncles' timber business in Vilna, and eventually moves to London as the company's representative. |
1939 | Baran moves to the U.S., with the intention of pursuing an academic career in economics, as Germany occupies Poland. Meets Paul Sweezy in Cambridge. Enrolls at Harvard as graduate student in economics. |
1941 | Baran receives an M.A. in economics from Harvard. He had obtained a Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) at the University of Berlin, but felt he needed to update and augment both his education and his credentials with a degree from Harvard. |
1941-1942 | Baran accepts research fellowship working on problems of price controls at the Brookings Institution. |
1942-1945 | After working briefly at the Office of Price Administration, Baran joins the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), working under E.S. Mason, and is drafted into the Army and reassigned to the OSS. His final rank was Technical Sergeant. |
1945 | PAB works for the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) under direction of J.K. Galbraith. (For an entertaining account of PAB's stint with the USSBS while on assignment in Germany, see J.K. Galbraith's memoir, A Life in Our Times, 1981.) |
1946-1949 | Baran works briefly at Department of Commerce and then about 3 years at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. First saved letters of correspondence between PMS and PAB are from 1949 when he lived in New York. |
1949 | After having taught a seminar during summer quarter at Stanford as a visiting scholar in 1948, Stanford hires Baran as an associate professor |
1951 | Stanford promotes Baran to full professor with tenure. |
1952 | "National Economic Planning" published (see bibliography) |
1953 | Baran spends fall semester at Oxford University, where he delivered a series of lectures forming the basis of his book, Political Economy of Growth. |
1955 | Baran is visiting scholar at the Indian Institute of Statistics in Calcutta. |
1957 | Political Economy of Growth is published. |
1960 | Baran travels to Cuba with Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman. Suffers heart attack in December, 1960. |
1962 | Baran makes major trip to Europe, the Soviet Union and Iran. |
1963 | Baran travels to Latin America, with lectures in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil |
1964-03-27 | Baran dies of massive heart attack while visiting his friend Leo Lowenthal for dinner in San Francisco. |
1964-04 | Monopoly Capital is published. |
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What sort of revolution? 1960-11-25
On the Cuban invasion 1960-04-20
U.S. policy towards China 1958-10-18
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Paul A. Baran in Los Angeles 1961-03-09
The work of Paul Baran undated
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In the last analysis; Talk on affairs in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion 1961-05-04
In the last analysis; Analysis of American foreign policy under John Foster Dulles 1963-05-24
Panel discussion on Cuba 1962-10-24
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Correspondence 1949-1964
Additional Papers Accession ARCH_2017_292
General Correspondence 1950-1964
Ccorrespondence with publishers 1950-1964
Correspondence with Maurice Dobb 1953-1959
Notes on "Festschrift" (Commemorative volume) for Maurice Dobb 1964
PAB's critique of Abe Bergson 1950-1951
Correspondence with copy editor Jack Rackliffe, mainly re: Political Economy of Growth (PEoG) 1956
Correspondence with Herbert Marcuse 1948-1963
Correspondence with Andre Gunder Frank 1963
Correspondence with Oscar Lange 1951-1952
Correspondence with The Nation 1951-1953
Oxford trip 1953
Notes and articles 1942-1964
Correspondnence with RAND Corporation 1950
Correspondence with Model, Roland, Stone 1950-1954
Notes from Federal Reserve Bank 1947-1948
Transcript of MR Associates lecture by PAB re: Soviet Party Congress 1961
Book review of "A Charter for World Trade," by Claire Wilcox, NYTimes 1949
Book review of "Saving U.S. Capitalism," by Seymour Harris, NYTimes 1949
Book review of "Spirit of Postwar Russia," by R. Schlesinger, Pol. Sci. Qrtrly. 1949
Copies of book reviews in s 17 and 18
Draft of article either by Paul Sweezy or PAB
Clippings and correspondence re: PAB's situation at Stanford 1957-1961
Dobbs, Sweezy, and J. Rackliffe comments on PEoG circa 1956
Paul Sweezy and Joan Robinson on PEoG
Reviews of PEoG
Clippings (for research)
Miscellaneous clippings
Business Week article on PAB, PMS, Huberman: "Viewing U.S. Economy with a Marxist Glass" 1963 Apr 13
Lecture notes on history of economic thought 1960
Notes for Econ 120 1958-1964
Back Examinations 1951-1952
Unpublished interview with PAB October 1961
Notes and Lecture Transcript on Marxism and Psychoanalysis 1959
Transcript of Stanford Lecture 1951
Undated article on Nazi Economy, written in German, probably circa 1940
Articles published in German circa 1932
Unpublished German manuscripts prior to 1933, German Radio broadcast transcripts
Unknown letter to PAB re: manuscript entitled "Dennoch Marxismus," Polish writings
Bibliography and proposed collection
Biographical material circa 1951
Intellectual and personal development, personal statement, biographical material circa 1951
Guggenheim application 1955
Personal statement, USSBS certificate 1946
USSBS German occupation reports, interviews with German personnel 1945
PAB Will, disposition of his library 1964
Manuscript re Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Unpublished manuscript circa 1948
Economic Progress and the Economic Surplus, manuscript plus commentary and letters 1953
Review by PAB and E.J. Hobsbawm of Rostow's "Stages of Economic Growth," manuscript and notes 1960
Miscellaneous correspondence incl. letter to Prime Minister Nehru 1956
Miscellaneous writings (drafts for his proposed journal "American Economist.") circa 1948-1950
Miscellaneous writings/correspondence, incl. transcript of panel discussion re Cuba on KPFA 1962 1948-1963
Academic credential documents 1926-1941
Civil Service, OSS, OPA Documents, UNRRA Appointment to Poland (PAB could not take job, no passport) 1942-1948
Office of Price Administration Paper, alleged to have been plagiarized by Otto Nathan 1942
Planning for Full Employment (with Lloyd Metzler); Remarks on USSR Economy 1944-1948
John Henderson's material on distribution of labor force 1958
Outline for book on socialism 1950
First draft of "National Economic Planning." circa 1950-1951
Materials and Correspondence re: "National Economic Planning." 1950-1951
Polish Volumes (Kalecki-Lange Festschrift): "Notes on Imperialism," "Economics of Two World" 1960
Article Notes, reprint of article, "New Trends in Russian Economic Thinking." 1944-1953
Manuscript for "Foreign Investment: Trap or Opportunity," 1955
Manuscript for "The American Dilemma," 1954
Notes on "Eighth Lecture" on Planned Economy, interview re: Cuba, Miscellaneous notes circa 1963-1960
Proposal for "American Economist," 1946
Tributes to PAB 1964
Files Pertaining to Passport Application (letters, affidavits, personal statement)
The Scientific-Industrial Revolution (pamphlet supplied by PAB under contract to investment bank Model-Roland-Stone, written by Paul Sweezy).
Latin American Trip (travel documents, clippings) 1963
Stanford clippings/letters circa 1961-1963
Trip Receipts 1953
India (appointment at Indian Institute of Statistics, Calcutta): Letter to Nehru, other documents 1956
Misc. Manuscripts submitted to PAB and Sweezy
Drafts for Monopoly Capital:
QoS (2) ms and carbon
Ch. 12 with Jack Rackliffe Notes
Ch. 8
Ch. 11
Model, Roland Stone issues (PAB's monthly submissions to Model, Roland and Stone circa 1950s
Lecture poster 1928