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Alexander Gerschenkron has been appointed the first Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics, Dean Bundy announced yesterday. Gerschenkron, a member of the Faculty since 1948, is an expert on the economy of Soviet Russia...
...Gerschenkron's work as an economic historian has centerd on the history of industrial development of Europe. A native of Russia, he has published several studies of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial output. Before joining the Faculty, Gerschenkron served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington as chief of its Foreign Areas Section...
History, Government and Economics professors disagreed last night--although not violently--about the significance of Nikita S. Khrushchev's revision of Karl Marx's thinking. Alexander Gerschenkron, professor of Economics, called the whole affair "downright un-Russian" while Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, said that Khruschev's remarks "mark the logical culmination of recent tendencies in Soviet thinking...
...Gerschenkron, who is also active in the Russian Research Committee, considered the new doctrine "an innovation," but emphasized that the Soviets are presently interested in relaxing tensions to combat spiralling inflationary tendencies within the USSR. He added that Marxism was today merely an empty shell within which the Russians develop opportunist policies, and that Khrushchev had definitely refuted Marxist doctrines in several portions of his speech...
Three o'clock: Economics 112b--The Economy of Russia--is the plum for the really late risers. The course was very popular under Leontief, and Gerschenkron, who has it now, is director of the economics part of the Russian Research Center...