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	International Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Even though many of the conclusions Sweezy drew were sharply at odds with the political tradition with which this magazine is associated, one can still admire his non-doctrinaire attitude and his attempts to develop and apply Marxist theory concretely to understand the contemporary world.
		Sweezy’s first exposure to Marxist ideas came in 1932—1933 when he was a visiting graduate student at the London School of Economics.
		Baran and Sweezy concluded that the tendency of the rate of profit to fall had been replaced by the tendency of the surplus to rise, and that the problem of modern capitalism was how to absorb this surplus.
	www.isreview.org /issues/35/sweezy_obit.shtml (1686 words)

	Paul Sweezy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a Marxian economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review.
		Sweezy was born in New York City, the son of a bank executive.
		Sweezy refused to comply, citing his First Amendment right of freedom of expression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Sweezy (733 words)

	Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910-2004)
		Sweezy’s intellectual influence, which was global in its reach, lay chiefly in two areas: as a leading radical economist, and as the principal originator of a distinct North American brand of socialist thought in his position as co-founder and co-editor of Monthly Review magazine.
		In 1967, Sweezy argued that the history of the twentieth century had proven that the revolutionary impetus had been transferred to the third world, and the future of the revolt against capitalism and the building of socialism were to be found primarily in the periphery of the capitalist world.
		However Sweezy believed that “the crisis of the Soviet Union and the collapse of its East European allies was not due to the failure of socialism.” Sweezy sympathized very broadly with Mao’s call for a “Cultural Revolution” and the motive that had inspired it.
	www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2004/april/obituary.htm (871 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Paul Sweezy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxian economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review.
		Sweezy was born in ISBN 085345079X), a book which summarized economic ideas of Marx and his followers.
		It was the first book in English that dealt with certain questions thoroughly such as the transformation problem.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Paul_Sweezy (617 words)

	Paul Sweezy, 93; Marxist, economist, Harvard teacher - The Boston Globe
		NEW YORK -- Paul Sweezy, a onetime economist at Harvard University who became a leading voice of Marxism during the Cold War, died Saturday in Larchmont, N.Y. He was 93.
		Sweezy attended Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson.
		Sweezy had as a mentor famed economist Joseph Schumpeter, the preeminent defender of free enterprise who lauded the "creative destruction" of vibrant capitalism.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/03/paul_sweezy_93_marxist_economist_harvard_teacher (514 words)

	Paul Sweezy \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Paul M. Sweezy, a Harvard University economist who left academia and became the nation's leading Marxist intellectual and publisher during the Cold War and the McCarthy era, died Saturday at his home in Larchmont, N.Y. He was 93.
		Sweezy's approach in the 100 articles or so he wrote over the years and the more than 20 books he signed as author, co-author or editor.
		Paul Marlor Sweezy was born April 10, 1910, the youngest of three sons of Everett P. Sweezy, vice president of First National Bank of New York, and Caroline Wilson Sweezy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040304/news_1m4sweezy.html (816 words)

	Paul Sweezy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Paul Sweezy, the grand old man of American Marxism, died at his home in Larchmont, New York, on February 28, just short of his 94th birthday.
		Sweezy described his Marxism as “revolutionary, non-reformist, non-revisionist — and at the same time non-dogmatic and non-fundamentalist, realising that Marx didn't say the last word on everything or even on anything”.
		Sweezy made important contributions to debates about the origin and dynamics of capitalism and imperialism, and the nature of post-capitalist society, and he remained committed to the socialist transformation of society for over 70 years.
	www.marxsite.com /paul_sweezy.htm (356 words)

	Monthly Review Paul M. Sweezy
		Sweezy later insisted that if he had not been so fortunate as to have had access to surplus value through his family inheritance he would probably have been forced like so many others to succumb to the kinds of controls and pressures inevitably exerted on those who earn their livings through the academy.
		Sweezy and MR thus sympathized very broadly with Mao’s call for a “Cultural Revolution” and the motive that had inspired it, aimed at stopping the emergence of such a new class--without supporting all of what was to develop in Mao’s failed attempt to reinvigorate the revolutionary process in China.
		Sweezy had been the most forceful thinker in his generation in the United States in putting forward the notion of the “ruling class” as the principal force in U.S. society—a ruling class that had its basis in ownership of property income, or surplus value.
	www.monthlyreview.org /paulsweezy.htm (10648 words)

	networkideas.org - A Saint and A Sage: Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910 - 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Meanwhile Sweezy had joined the economics faculty at Harvard; but when the time came for Harvard to take the "up or out" decision in the case of Sweezy, the clear pointer was towards an "out" decision, his Marxist predilections having become apparent meanwhile.
		Sweezy's enduring contribution to "mainstream" economics is the so-called "kinked demand curve" which oligopolists are supposed to face.
		Sweezy's, and Baran's, contribution was to argue that "underconsumptionism" was an ex ante tendency (which I shall explain shortly), and to eliminate thereby a whole range of confusions surrounding the theory.
	www.networkideas.org /news/mar2004/news16_Paul_Sweezy.htm (2256 words)

	Paul M. Sweezy
		Paul Sweezy is best known in economics for two not-so-distinct concerns which have dominated his economics: analyzing monopolistic competition and updating Marxian thought into "Neo-Marxian" economics.
		Sweezy encountered Marxian theory soon enough and in his majestic 1942 book, Theory of Capitalist Development, helped reintroduce Marxian thought to economics - in particular drawing attention to Marx's "Transformation Problem" and the theory of crisis.
		Sweezy saw these ideas as a way of modernising the Marxian theory of crisis and he set them forth both in his numerous writings in the Monthly Review and, perhaps most famously, in his highly influential Monopoly Capital (1966) written with Paul Baran.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/sweezy.htm (300 words)

	networkideas.org - A Saint and A Sage: Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910 - 2004)
		Meanwhile Sweezy had joined the economics faculty at Harvard; but when the time came for Harvard to take the "up or out" decision in the case of Sweezy, the clear pointer was towards an "out" decision, his Marxist predilections having become apparent meanwhile.
		Sweezy's enduring contribution to "mainstream" economics is the so-called "kinked demand curve" which oligopolists are supposed to face.
		Sweezy's, and Baran's, contribution was to argue that "underconsumptionism" was an ex ante tendency (which I shall explain shortly), and to eliminate thereby a whole range of confusions surrounding the theory.
	www.ideaswebsite.org /news/mar2004/news16_Paul_Sweezy.htm (2256 words)

	NetGuruIndia news main page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Kenneth Galbraith paying his tribute to Paul Sweezy, a diametrically opponent as an economist to Galbraith, recalls his salad days in Harvard University where he joined as an instructor in 1934.
		Pity is that the Indian leftists whose gratitude to Sweezy and other stalwarts of MR such as Leo Huberman and Harry Magdoff is immense did not show any gesture to remember Sweezy's towering contributions.
		Sweezy and other MR academicians have been opposed to Stalin and the hangover of command economy.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Jul00/04/EDI1.html (407 words)

	Obituary: Paul Sweezy
		PAUL SWEEZY, the grand old man of American Marxism, died last month just short of his 94th birthday.
		Sweezy fought the case to the Supreme Court, which eventually overturned his conviction in 1957.
		But Sweezy made important contributions to debates about the origin and dynamics of capitalism and imperialism, and the nature of post-capitalist society.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/490/490_09_Sweezy.shtml (386 words)

	GLOVES OFF: bare-fisted political economy
		NEW YORK April 17, 2004—A memorial meeting for Paul Sweezy was held today at Landmark on the Park (Unitarian Church) on 76th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan.
		Paul died on February 28th, so the shock of his death had had an opportunity to recede.
		Postcards with a picture of Paul in Cuba in 1960 were on a table outside the main hall.
	www.glovesoff.org /history_files/sweezy/jerrylevy_sweezy.html (737 words)

	References - Paul Sweezy
		Sweezy, Paul M. Monopoly and competition in the English coal trade, 1550-1850 (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1972, c1938).
		Sweezy, Paul M. & Magdoff, H. (ed.) Revolu.
		Magdoff, H. & Sweezy, Paul M. Stagnation and the financial explosion (MRP, 1987).
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Afra2837/paul-sweezy-references.html (314 words)

	Learning from Paul M. Sweezy
		Most theory nowadays should be highly polemical, attacking and destroying false Marxism and restoring Marxism to its proper role, not as a body of formal theories, but as the only way to interpret history and hence as the only reliable guide to revolutionary action.
		Paul worried that I was too harsh with them.
		In other words effectively to establish Marxism as what it is, the definitive (although of course not in the sense of being incapable of indefinite further development) critique of capitalism with its necessary link to a revolutionary political position.
	www.nodo50.org /cubasigloXXI/taller/lebowitz_310305.htm (891 words)

	Paul Sweezy \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		Sweezy was educated at Philips Exeter Academy, an elite New England boarding school, and Harvard University, where he edited the undergraduate daily, Crimson, and studied neoclassical economics.
		Sweezy and Huberman thought one of the reasons for the Wallace movement's failure was its reluctance to articulate socialist alternatives.
		In 1960, in the wake of the revolution that brought Castro to power, Sweezy and Huberman travelled to Cuba to study developments in education, nationalisation of industry, and land reform.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1161483,00.html (923 words)

	Review of Paul Sweezy's by Paul Mattick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It may be said, however, that within the limits of his media, Sweezy’s comments on works written by Toynbee, Burnham, Hallgarten, Sternberg, Veblen, Hansen, Pigou, and so forth, are interesting and justified not only from his own point of view but also from any other realistic and honest social attitude.
		Wherever Sweezy applies Marxian criticism to capitalist theories and ideologies he is quite successful, but where he tries to square his Marxism with the realities of Russian society he remains unconvincing.
		But Sweezy’s rather conciliatory attitude towards the Keynesian brand of economics and his apparent lack of the specific dogmatism of the party-communist, does not alter the essentially apologetic nature of his work.
	www.marxists.org /archive/mattick-paul/1955/sweezy.htm (332 words)

	GLOVES OFF: bare-fisted political economy
		Two of Paul Sweezy's most influential books are The Theory Of Capitalist Development (published in 1942) and Monopoly Capital, which he wrote with Paul Baran (published in 1966).
		Monopoly Capital argued a "stagnation theory," at the heart of which was the idea that capitalism had so altered since Marx's time, the secular tendency of the rate of profit to fall was no longer applicable.
		"Sweezy was also a proponent of an 'underconsumption' interpretation of Marx, a new theory of imperialism rooted in 'dependency' and the examination of Keynesian demand management as a life-valve for capitalism—ideas commonly associated with the Monthly Review...
	www.glovesoff.org /history_files/sweezy (293 words)

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		Paul Marlor Sweezy was born in April 1910 in New York City.
		Sweezy was educated at the elite New England boarding school Philips Exeter Academy and then at Harvard University, where he was editor of the campus newspaper
		In 1954 Sweezy was twice subpoenaed by the New Hampshire Attorney General and asked to divulge the names of his associates and whether he advocated Communism.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1989 (1448 words)

	Karl Marx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Influential Marxists of the same period include the Third International's Georg Lukacs and Antonio Gramsci, who along with the Frankfurt School are often known by the term Western Marxism.
		In 1949 Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman founded Monthly Review, a journal and press, to provide an outlet for Marxist thought in the United States independent of the Communist Party.
		Cohen attempted to defend Marx's thought as a coherent and scientific theory of history by restating its central tenets in the language of analytic philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_marx (6450 words)

	Paul Marlor Sweezy Biography / Biography of Paul Marlor Sweezy World of Sociology Biography
		In his ninth decade of life, Paul M. Sweezy continued to be involved in the publication of the Monthly Review, an independent socialist journal he founded with Leo Huberman in 1949.
		As an adamant supporter of socialism, Sweezy has influenced economic and political thought for over fifty years through his writing and his personal commitment to the cause.
		Sweezy was born on April 10, 1910, in New York City to Everett, an executive at J. Morgan's bank, and Caroline (Wilson) Sweezy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-paul-marlor-sweezy-soc (230 words)

	Paul M. Sweezy Monthly Review - Find Articles
		While the book comes in for much casual criticism today, Paul Sweezy can be credited for having kept the eventual prospect of a revival of Marxian economics alive.
		Sweezy also initially formulated there his general theory of capitalist stagnation.
		It is a theory which has been offered to explain not only the Depression conditions of its origin but also the postwar boom (the "Golden Age") and the subsequent crisis of the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_5_56/ai_n6338571 (287 words)

	An interview with Paul M. Sweezy - founding editor of the 'Monthly Review - Interview Monthly Review - Find Articles
		Born in 1910 in New York City, son of a Wall Street bank executive, Sweezy attended Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, graduating in 1931.
		Sweezy taught economics at Harvard for five years until, in the year of publication of his work The Theory of Capitalist Development (Oxford University Press, 1942), he joined the research and analysis division of the Office of Strategic Services, wartime forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, for which he edited the classified European Political Report.
		Returning to the United States in fall 1945, Sweezy decided that, faced with the certitude of being denied tenure, he should resign from Harvard.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1132/is_1_51/ai_54682833 (415 words)

	Alexander Cockburn: Understanding the World with Paul Sweezy
		Bob remembered the excitement of Sweezy's lectures at the New School, and he swiftly furnished many interesting paragraphs about Sweezy's great contributions, in the big books and in Monthly Review, which he founded with Leo Huberman in 1949.
		At Harvard in the 1930s Sweezy was the star grad student of Joseph Schumpeter.
		Way ahead of most, Sweezy was clear-eyed about the trends: the capture of more and more of society's wealth by the rich, the threat this tapering pyramid of purchasing power poses to the stability of the whole system, the need for the left to bolster what defenses working people can muster against the predators.
	www.counterpunch.org /cockburn03062004.html (1749 words)

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		Paul Sweezy, Stalin, and Brad De Long; The Kinked Demand Curve Interrupted.
		Paul Sweezy publicly revised his opinion on an analytical issue in order to agree with the position taken by a genocidal tyrant.
		I just came across a reference to a Supreme Court case which I guessed might be him, since, with his slavish devotion to Stalin, he was one of the people caught up in McCarthyism.
	www.rasmusen.org /w/04.03.06a.htm (584 words)

	About the MR Webzine
		That point of view is the heartfelt attempt to frame the issues of the day with one set of interests foremost in mind: those of the great majority of humankind, the propertyless.
		Leo Huberman died in 1968, and Harry Magdoff became an editor in 1969 and served in that capacity till his death on 1 January 2006.
		Founding editor Paul Sweezy died on February 27, 2004, and a special issue devoted to his work was published in October, 2004.
	mrzine.monthlyreview.org /about.html (454 words)

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