Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Paul A. Baran

Born: August 25, 1909
Died: March 26, 1964 (aged 54)
Bio: Paul Alexander Baran was an American economist known for his Marxist views. In 1951 Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University and Baran was the only tenured Marxian economist in the United States until his death in 1964.
Known for:
- Monopoly Capital
- The Political Economy of Growth (1957)
- The longer view
- Le Capitalisme monopoliste