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Robert Lekachman
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1920 – 1989
Who was Robert Lekachman?
Robert Lekachman was an economist known for his extensive advocacy of state intervention, and for a debating style characterized by slow, sing-song speech and circumlocution.
He was Distinguished Professor of Economics at Lehman College in the City University of New York. He received both his A.B. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Lekachman was also noted for an interpretation of Keynes's General Theory that made central its rejection of Say's Law.
Lekachman identified as a socialist.
He died at his Manhattan home of liver cancer, survived by his wife Eva, who donated his papers in 1995.
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- Born
- 1920
Manhattan - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Columbia University
- Lived in
- Manhattan
( - 1989/01/14)
- Manhattan
- Died
- Jan 14, 1989
Manhattan
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on July 23, 2013
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