Paul A. Baran

Paul Alexander Baran
Economist Paul A. Baran as he appeared in the late 1950s
Born	25 August 1909 Mykolaiv,[2] Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
Died	26 March 1964(1964-03-26) (aged 54) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics
School or tradition	Neo-Marxian economics[1]
Influences	Karl Marx, Michał Kalecki, Josef Steindl, John Kenneth Galbraith
Contributions	Economic surplus

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Paul Alexander Baran (/ˈbærən/; 25 August 1909 – 26 March 1964) was an American Marxist economist. In 1951 Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and Baran was the only tenured Marxian economist in the United States until his death in 1964. Baran wrote The Political Economy of Growth in 1957 and co-authored Monopoly Capital with Paul Sweezy.^[3]