Word: gerschenkron
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...Every word is a rubberband that can be expanded and contracted at will," charged Alexander Gerschenkron, Barker Professor of Economics...
Bruce Bowling, Celtic Alexander Gerschenkron, David Landes. History Ulrich Petersen, Donald Warwick, Social Relations
...Social Studies Program began five years ago as a coalition of malcontents, led by Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics, and Stanley Hoffmann, now professor of Government and chairman of the Program...
...seemed an impractical idea. The ambitious academic, in search of tenure or professional prestige, shied away from the cross-disciplinary approach, just as he now rebels against teaching Gen Ed courses. To buck this trend in each department was beyond the power and energy of even a Hoffmann or Gerschenkron...
...prepared to leave, and stood looking at the books on philosophy, Latin poetry, and Scandinavian economics, I could not help asking Professor Gerschenkron how he had managed to escape the ill effects of his oppressive schooling. "It was a tough system," he replied. "If you failed one subject, you had to repeat a whole year, which did you great social harm. But school was so mechanical, so bureaucratic, that everyone read outside school and developed outside interests." "Mine," he added, "was Bulgarian philology...