Published in:Center for the History of Political Economy CHOPE Working Paper ; No. 2013-05
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2286762
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 26, 2013 erstellt
Description:
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