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Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
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Carl Kaysen
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E38-603
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617-253-4054
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Professor Kaysen received his B.A. from the University of
Pennsylvania (1940) and his Ph.D. from Harvard University
(Economics, 1954). Before joining the MIT faculty in 1976, he was
on the faculty of the Economics Department at Harvard; from 1964 to
1966, he was Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
to President Kennedy; and he served as Director of the Institute
for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976. He has been a Junior Fellow
at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society. He was Vice Chairman and Director of
Research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to
1980.
His scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics,
sociology, politics and law overlap. His current research centers
on arms control and international politics. He is a co-author (with
George Rathjens) of Peace Operations by the United Nations: The
Case for a Volunteer Military Force (1996) and co-editor (with
Michael Schaif and Sarah Sewall) of The United States and the
Fundamental Criminal Court: National Security and Fundamental Law
(2000). He is also editor of and contributor to a volume of essays,
The American Corporation Today (1996).
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