Word: gerschenkron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Russian-born economist and economic historian, Gerschenkron came to the United States in 1938 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley until 1942. He joined the Faculty in 1948 and taught here until his retirement...
...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...