Carl Kaysen
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| Born | March 5, 1920 Philadelphia |
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Carl Kaysen (born March 5, 1920 in Philadelphia) is an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen.
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[edit] Educational background
Dr. Kaysen did his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1940 where he was a member of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. at Harvard University in Economics, in 1954.
[edit] Work and research
Dr. Kaysen's scholarly work has been in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law come together. His current research is focused on arms control and international politics.
He is a co-author of Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer Military Force (1996) and co-editor of The United States and the Fundamental Criminal Court: National Security and Fundamental Law (2000).
He is editor of and contributor to a volume of essays, The American Corporation Today (1996).
[edit] Career
From 1961 to 1963, he was Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President John F. Kennedy and he served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976.
He was on the faculty of the Economics Department at Harvard University and joined the MIT faculty in 1976.
Dr. Kaysen was Vice Chairman and Director of Research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1980.
He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
