MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists

Center for the History of Political Economy CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-05

Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper

16 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2013

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E. Roy Weintraub

Duke University - Department of Economics

Date Written: June 26, 2013

Abstract

MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this paper the author argues that the immediate postwar period saw a collapse – in some places slower, in some places faster – of the barriers to the hiring of Jewish faculty in American colleges and universities. And more than any other elite private or public university, particularly Ivy League universities, MIT welcomed Jewish economists.

Keywords: MIT, Jewish faculty, anti-Semitism, Samuelson

JEL Classification: A14, B00, B20

Suggested Citation

Weintraub, E. Roy, MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists (June 26, 2013). Center for the History of Political Economy CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-05, Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2286762 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2286762

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