Carl Kaysen (born March 5, 1920 in Philadelphia) is an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen. March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 34 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ... Girl, Interrupted book cover Girl, Interrupted is an Academy Award-winning film adapted by the memoir by Susanna Kaysen. ... Susanna Kaysen (born 11 November 1948) is an American author. ...

Educational background

Dr. Kaysen did his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1940 where he was a member of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. at Harvard University in Economics, in 1954. The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... College Hall of the University of Pennsylvania. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Face-to-face trading interactions among on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor Economics, may just involve more otriches than you think social science, studies the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. ...

Work and research

Dr. Kaysen's scholarly work has been in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law come together. His current research is focused on arms control and international politics.

He is a co-author of Peace Operations by the United Nations: The Case for a Volunteer Military Force (1996) and co-editor of The United States and the Fundamental Criminal Court: National Security and Fundamental Law (2000).

He is editor of and contributor to a volume of essays, The American Corporation Today (1996).

Career

From 1964 to 1966, he was Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President John F. Kennedy and he served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy, or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the...

He was on the faculty of the Economics Department at Harvard University and joined the MIT faculty in 1976.

Dr. Kaysen was Vice Chairman and Director of Research for the Sloan Commission on Higher Education from 1978 to 1980.

He was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded as the Junto in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. ...

External links

• Dr. Carl Kaysen's faculty web page at MIT
• imdb entry