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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

 

 
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