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Article: Adolph Lowe's Political Economics: A Review Essay.(Review)
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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The publication of a new collection of essays edited by Harald Hagemann and Heinz D. Kurz(1) gives occasion to reflect on Adolph Lowe's rich scientific legacy. Lowe, who died in 1995 at the age of 103, was for nearly forty years, beginning in 1940, a member of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Over a career that spanned almost eight decades, he pushed against the envelope of theoretical economics, and strove to make it a more useful discipline for the improvement of society.
The Graduate Faculty, as is now well known, was set up by Alvin Johnson in 1933, with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, to assist European scholars ...