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NOTES 1. Jewish mother (née Hirschfelder), non-Jewish father; see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-autobio.html. 2. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 36). 3. See http://www.vdare.com/pb/own_problems.htm. 4. See preface to Not Only an Economist: Recent Essays by Mark Blaug (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1997); see also the third paragraph of http://www.mskousen.com/Books/Articles/turnabouts.html. 5. See page 9 of http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details/1995-12-05/chinese.pdf. 6. Hendrik Houthakker is the son of the Dutch-Jewish art dealer Bernard Houthakker; his mother, née Lichtenstein, was also Jewish. (Information supplied by a Dutch-Jewish family member.) A 19 April 2003 article and interview with Houthakker in the Valley News, a Vermont newspaper, stated that he grew up in a Jewish family and was sheltered on a farm for eight months by a Roman Catholic family after escaping from Gestapo arrest. 7. See Chapter 1, "My Family and Youth - 1928-1944," of By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, by János Kornai (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 1-21), in which Kornai recounts his family's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Hungary (which took the lives of his father and a brother). Kornai survived in part thanks to a Swedish Schutzbrief (letter of safe conduct) provided by Raoul Wallenberg. 8. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; see Genia and Wassily by Estelle Marks Leontief (Zephyr Press, Sommerville, MA, 1987, pp. 8 and 18). 9. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 394). 10. Jewish father (eminent Columbia University sociologist Robert King Merton, born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; see http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker/merton/33bio.htm), non-Jewish mother. 11. See Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 14, p. 382). 12. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/selten-autobio.html. 13. Jewish father, mother of partial Jewish ancestry; see Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon (BasicBooks, New York,NY, 1991, pp. 3, 17, 112, 262). 14. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see "A Chinese homecoming," by Robert Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine (Issue 118, January 2006). 15. See A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd Edition, edited by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2000, p. 618). See also Piero Sraffa, Unorthodox Economist (1898-1983): A Biographical Essay, by Jean-Pierre Potier (Routledge, London, 1991,pp. 1-2). 16. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, Vol. 15, p.835 ). 17. Jewish father (German banker Paul Wallich, who committed suicide in the immediate aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom), non-Jewish mother. See House at the Bridge, by Katie Hafner (Scribner, New York, 1995) or its review on amazon.com. |
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