There is an ongoing history of efforts to build bridges between labor and management at the New School that lasted from 1919 through the 1970s.

The big land owners who dominated the German army and bureaucracy believed that the state was obliged to protect their privileges. Most of the agricultural population, still influenced by feudal traditions, accepted the leadership of this minority group.

"The ideas of both economists and political philosophers," wrote Lord Keynes, himself a great economist, "both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868—August 27, 1963) was an American historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist, widely recognized for his historiography on Reconstruction, writings on black subjectivity, and involvement in the Pan-Africanist movement.

One of the most influential members of the Graduate Faculty of the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Heilbroner was born in New York City to a wealthy German Jewish family that owned menswear stores.

Frieda Wunderlich (b. Berlin, November 8, 1894—d. East Orange, NJ, December 9, 1965) was the only woman in the original group of scholars that formed the University-in- Exile at The New School in 1933.

Hans Staudinger was a Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. You can read more about him here.

Public discussion of the economic future of the world is in full swing. After a period of gestation devoted to sweeping generalities and utopian blueprints for a world economy in the literal sense, we have now entered the realistic phase of planning for the immediate post-war period.

As long as friends of democracy, throughout the world, are not all killed or confined to Hitler’s concentration camps, there is one thing they cannot afford. They cannot afford to believe in his ultimate and lasting victory.

In what has been said of the evolution of the vicarious leisure class and its differentiation from the general body of the working classes, reference has been made to a further division of labour, – that between different servant classes.

To contribute to a diagnosis of the present state of world affairs will be the primary task of the new Institute of World Affairs, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York.

Wars are the products of the civilization in which they are waged. Their specific character is dependent upon the specific organization of society in times of peace.

One hundred and twenty-five years had now passed since The Wealth of Nations appeared in 1776, and in that span of time it seemed as if the great economists had left no aspect of the world unexamined: its magnificence or its squalor, its naivete or its sometimes sinister overtones, it

Robert Heilbroner has had a long-standing interest in the issues of rationality and ideology in shaping economic theory (see, particularly, Heilbroner, 1988, chaps. 1 and 8, and Heilbroner, 1999, chap. 11).

In the beginning, on the sixth day of His work, God created man-as a consumer.

When I chose this subject I had no ambition to shoulder the burden of a critical survey of agricultural economics today—years after the founding of our Association. Others have found that such an undertaking requires an extensive committee, large funds, and years of work.

Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School.

The subsidy is only a single aspect of housing policy; yet the form it ultimately takes will influence more than the housing program alone. In all its long history, both here and abroad, the subsidy has never been more significant than it is currently.

The following pages are frankly fragmentary. They are designed to suggest new lines of historical research rather than to treat the subject in an exhaustive fashion. This apology is not intended as an anticipation of the criticism of reviewers, but as a confession of fact.

The private institutions of higher education in the United States and the business men who have traditionally supported them are more than a little concerned over the tendency of the State to assume progressively greater responsibilityi n the area which they have themselves until rece