Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University, trained in the German Historical School of economics.
Born into a Jewish family in Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine, Gerschenkron fled the country during the Russian Civil War in 1920 to Austria, where he attended the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate in 1928. After the Anschluss in 1938, he emigrated to the United States.
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AlexanderGerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University...
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PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970, where she studied under AlexanderGerschenkron. Her doctoral dissertation on the British iron and steel industry...
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at Oxford. From the Economic History Association, he won their AlexanderGerschenkron prize in 1997. In 1998, Leunig joined the London School of Economics...
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relation to understanding historical chronology. Economic historian AlexanderGerschenkron has taken issue with the dichotomy, arguing that continuity "appears...
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in 1960. At Harvard University, she was influenced by economists AlexanderGerschenkron and Robert Solow. She was a fellow of the American Association of...
(1963). "The Russian Peasantry". Past & Present (26): 102–109. Gerschenkron, Alexander (1964). ""Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth...
is a notion first formulated by the Russian-American economist AlexanderGerschenkron in 1952. However, there is one who argues that it was the American...
Character (May 2002), is a memoir of his grandfather, the economist AlexanderGerschenkron. It was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in biography. A Seattle...
Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan Peter B Evans, Embedded Autonomy AlexanderGerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective Peter A. Hall,...
Bismarck and the German Empire (London: Unwin University Books, 1968). AlexanderGerschenkron, Bread and Democracy in Germany (New York: Howard Fertig, 1966)...
theorist Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method AlexanderGerschenkron, economic historian Jean Gottmann, geographer Lazar Gulkowitsch...
practitioner of the New Economic History. At Harvard he studied under AlexanderGerschenkron. He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the...
economics from Harvard University. His teachers at Harvard included AlexanderGerschenkron, Wassily Leontief and Edward Chamberlin.[citation needed] He began...
Soviet Union Program at Harvard University for two years where AlexanderGerschenkron, Merle Fainsod, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Lee Wolff and Isaiah...
economic history, awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press AlexanderGerschenkron prize: best dissertation in non-American economic history Jonathan...
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