Paul A. Baran (American Marxist economist) Add a review

Paul Alexander Baran (; 25 August 1909 – 26 March 1964) was an American Marxist economist. In 1951, Baran was promoted to full professor at Stanford University. He was the only tenured Marxian economist in the United States until his death in 1964. He wrote The Political Economy of Growth in 1957 and co-authored Monopoly Capital with Paul Sweezy.