Carl Kaysen served President Kennedy as Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, working directly under National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy. Mr. Kaysen took over the position from Walt Rostow in 1961 and focused on some of the key issues of the Kennedy presidency including foreign trade, economic policy, and the potential use of nuclear weapons.
1920 Born, Philadelphia, PA.
1940 A.B., University of Pennsylvania
1940-1942 Graduate study at Columbia University
1940-1942 Staff, National Bureau of Economic Research
1942-1943 Economist, U.S. Office of Strategic Services
1943-1945 Intelligence, U.S. Army Air Forces
1947 M.A., Harvard University
1950-1955 Assistant professor, Harvard University
1950-1952 Clerk to Judge E. E. Wyzanski, U.S. District Court
1954 Ph.D., Military / Wartime Service
1955-1957 Associate Professor, Harvard University
1957-1966 Professor of Economics, Harvard University
1961-1963 Deputy Special Assistant to President Kennedy for National Security Affairs
1960-1966 Associate Dean, Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University
1963 Special Consultant to the President
1964 Chairman, President’s Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy
1964-1966 Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
1966-1976 Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
1968 Member, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
1977 David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy
1977-1979 Vice Chairman and Director of Research, Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education
1981-present Director, Program in Science, Technology and Society, MIT
Author
“United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation”: An Economic Analysis of an Anti-Trust Case, 1956
The American Business Creed (with F.K. Sutton, W.E. Harris, and J. Tobin), 1956
Anti-Trust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis (with Donald F. Turner), 1959
The Demand for Electricity in the United States (with Franklin M. Fisher), 1962
The Higher Learning: The Universities and the Public, 1969
Content and Context: Essays on College Education (editor), 1973
A Debate on “A Time to Choose” (with William Tavoulareas), 1977
Program for Renewed Partnership: A Report, 1980.
Source:
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 1999