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| Name | Harry W. Laidler |
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Brooklyn, New York , United States |
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February 18, 1884
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| Died | July 14, 1970
(86 years)
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| Contributor | nystate63 |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Dec 11, 2012 10:45am |
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| Info | American economist and Socialist leader, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1907, Brooklyn Law School, 1910, Ph.D. Columbia, 1914. A founder (1905) and secretary (1910-21) of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, he was also executive director (1921-57) of its successor organization, the League for Industrial Democracy. From 1920 a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, he served twice as president (1930-32, 1948-49). Laidler was the Socialist candidate for numerous public offices and served (1940-41) on the New York City council. His writings include Boycotts and the Labor Struggle (1914), A History of Socialist Thought (1927), Concentration of Control in American Industry (1931), Social-Economic Movements (1944), and The History of Socialism (1968).
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