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...Abram Bergson, an acclaimed economist who put aside plans to become a professional artist and went on to revolutionize the way the West understood Soviet economics, died last Wednesday in Cambridge...
...Bergson, who became the head of Harvard’s Russian Research Center in 1956, was a particularly influential consultant for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during the Cold War years, when he analyzed what many assumed to be inflated Soviet economic statistics to try to accurately determine that nation’s Gross National Product...
...mastery of Soviet economics garnered Bergson top advisory positions, impressed colleagues and sometimes intimidated students...
...Especially at the beginning of the study of the Soviet economy, Abe Bergson was sort of an oracle. He knew more about it than anyone else,” said Robert M. Solow ’44-’47, a Nobel laureate and emeritus professor of economics at MIT who worked closely with Bergson...
...mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took 10 years to paint (no wonder, with all that dimpled piglet flesh) and was regarded not only as Frederic...