- Carl Kaysen
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name = Carl Kaysen
birth_date = birth date and age|1920|3|5
birth_place =Philadelphia
chilren =Susanna Kaysen Carl Kaysen (born
March 5 1920 inPhiladelphia ) is an economist and professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology . He is the father of "Girl, Interrupted " authorSusanna Kaysen .Carl Kaysen worked for President
John F. Kennedy as Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, and was directly under National Security AdvisorMcGeorge Bundy . He had taken over the position from Walt Rostow in 1961 and concentrated on the key issues of the Kennedy presidency such as foreign trade, economic policy, and the potential use of nuclear weapons.Educational background
Dr. Kaysen received his B.A. from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1940 where he was a member of the Philomathean Society, and received both his M.S. in 1947, and Ph.D. in 1954 fromHarvard University inEconomics . He did graduate study atColumbia University from 1940 to 1946.Work and research
Dr. Kaysen's scholarly work has been in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law come together. His current research is focused on arms control and international politics.
He is a co-author of "Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer Military Force" (1996) and co-editor of "The United States and the Fundamental Criminal Court: National Security and Fundamental Law" (2000).
He is editor of and contributor to a volume of essays, "The American Corporation Today" (1996).
Career
Between 1940 and 1942 he was on the staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1942 to 1943 he was an Economist for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, and from 1943 to 1945 he was in Intelligence for the U.S. Army Air Forces.
After receiving his M.A. from Harvard University in 1947, he was an Assistant professor there from 1950 to 1955, and was a clerk to Judge E. E. Wyzanski, U.S. District Court from 1950 to 1952. In 1954 he received his Ph.D. from Harvard and did Military and Wartime Service. In 1955, he became an Associate Professor at Harvard, and in 1957, a full Professor of Economics. He served as Associate Dean, Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University from 1960 to 1966.
From 1961 to 1963, he was Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President
John F. Kennedy and he was named Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, at Harvard University from 1964 to 1966.He served as Director of the
Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976.Dr. Kaysen joined the MIT faculty in 1976 and in 1977 named as David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy.
He was Vice Chairman and Director of Research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1980.
Since 1981, he has been the Director, Program in Science, Technology and Society, at MIT.
He had been a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a
Guggenheim Fellow , and a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theAmerican Philosophical Society .Selected publications
*"“United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation”: An Economic Analysis of an Anti-Trust Case", 1956
*"The American Business Creed" (with F.K. Sutton, W.E. Harris, and J. Tobin), 1956
*"Anti-Trust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis" (with Donald F. Turner), 1959
*"The Demand for Electricity in the United States" (with Franklin M. Fisher), 1962
*"The Higher Learning: The Universities and the Public", 1969
*"Content and Context: Essays on College Education" (editor), 1973
*"A Debate on “A Time to Choose”" (with William Tavoulareas), 1977
*"Program for Renewed Partnership: A Report", 1980.
*"Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War" (Foreign Affairs), 1991External links
* [http://web.mit.edu/sts/faculty/info/Kaysen_Carl-css.html Dr. Carl Kaysen's faculty web page at MIT]
* [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Biographies+and+Profiles/Profiles/Carl+Kaysen.htm JFK Library file]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1431783/ imdb entry]
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