MIT's Openness to Jewish Economists

E. Roy Weintraub

Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series from Center for the History of Political Economy

Abstract: MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this paper the author argues that the immediate postwar period saw a collapse – in some places slower, in some places faster – of the barriers to the hiring of Jewish faculty in American colleges and universities. And more than any other elite private or public university, particularly Ivy League universities, MIT welcomed Jewish economists.

Keywords: MIT; Jewish faculty; anti-Semitism; Samuelson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B2 B22 E12 E13 O11 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
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