Word: gerschenkron
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...Faculty meeting shortly after the University Hall occupation, Hoffmann said, economist Alexander Gerschenkron, who had lived through the Russian Revolution, said that there are only three things you can do to students: “Beat them! Beat them! Beat them...
Dean Rosovsky, a former student and Gerschenkron's successor as Barker Professor, said yesterday that Gerschenkron was "one of the last cultivated European intellectuals, a great scholarly model...
...Gerschenkron is best known for applying the methods of statistical economic analysis to the study of history, and for his work on European industrialization. Among his many published works is the influential "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective...
...trained as much of the new generation of economic historians as all the others put together," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and another former student of Gerschenkron, added yesterday...
During World War II, Gerschenkron worked as a flanger--a type of steelworker--in a California shipyard and said several years later, "I seriously considered staying in the shipyard. The work didn't follow you home at night into your leisure and your dreams...