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'''Paul Marlor Sweezy''' (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a [[Marxist]] [[economist]] and a founding [[editor]] of the magazine ''[[Monthly Review]]''.

==Academic beginnings==
Sweezy was born in [[New York City]]. His father, Everett B. Sweezy, was a vice-president of First National Bank of New York.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.monthlyreview.org/paulsweezy.htm
|work=Monthly Review
|title=Memorial Service for Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910-2004)
|author=John Bellamy Foster}}</ref> Sweezy attended [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] and went on to [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and was editor of ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'', graduating in 1931. He then spent a year at the [[London School of Economics]], where he was first exposed to Marxian economic ideas. Returning to Harvard, he received his doctorate in 1937, after which he began teaching economics there. In 1942, he published ''The Theory of Capitalist Development'', a book which summarized economic ideas of Marx and his followers. It was the first book in English that dealt with certain questions thoroughly such as the [[transformation problem]]. From 1942 to 1945, he worked for the research and analysis division of the [[Office of Strategic Services]]. He later taught at [[The New School]].

==Founder of ''Monthly Review''==
In 1949, he founded ''[[Monthly Review]]'' with [[Leo Huberman]], with money from [[historian]] and [[literary critic]] [[F. O. Matthiessen]]. The first issue appeared in May of that year. It is a [[socialist]] magazine founded in the midst of the American [[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]. In 1954 [[New Hampshire]] Attorney General [[Louis C. Wyman]] subpoenaed Sweezy and made inquiries into his political beliefs and associations, demanding to know the names of his political associates. Sweezy refused to comply, citing his [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] right of [[freedom of expression]]. He was cited for [[contempt of court]], but the [[US Supreme Court]] overturned that citation in 1957.

==Notes==
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* [http://www.fundacionsistema.com/media/PDF/Ppios10Art.Bellod.pdf , Bellod Redondo, J. F. "Monopolio e Irracionalidad: Microfundamentos de la Teoría Baran - Sweezy" in ''Principios - Estudios de Economía Política'', pp 65 – 84, nº 10, Fundación Sistema, Madrid. (2008)]
* Foster, John Bellamy. ''Paul Sweezy & Monopoly Capital'' (Pluto Press, Sterling, 2002).

==External links==
*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_1_51/ai_54682833 Interview of Paul M. Sweezy by Christopher Phelps and Andor Skotnes]
*[http://www.monthlyreview.org/paulsweezy.htm Obituary] (''Monthly Review'')
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/business/02SWEE.html?ex=1079225155&ei=1 Obituary] (''The New York Times'')
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C12271%2C1161736%2C00.html Obituary] (''The Guardian'')
*[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/april/obituary.htm Obituary]
*[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/03/paul_sweezy_93_marxist_economist_harvard_teacher/ Paul Sweezy, 93; Marxist, economist, Harvard teacher] (''The Boston Globe'')
*[http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=357985 Marxist Thinker, Former Prof. Dies] (''The Harvard Crimson'', 2004)
*[http://www.counterpunch.org/pollin03062004.html "Remembering Paul Sweezy"] (by Robert Pollin, ''[[CounterPunch]]'')
*[http://www.ernestmandel.org/en/works/txt/soviet_bureaucracy.htm Why The Soviet Bureaucracy is not a New Ruling Class] ([[Ernest Mandel]] comments on Sweezy's view of the USSR 1979)

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	* [http://www.fundacionsistema.com/media/PDF/Ppios10Art.Bellod.pdf , Bellod Redondo, J. F. "Monopolio e Irracionalidad: Microfundamentos de la Teoría Baran - Sweezy" in ''Principios - Estudios de Economía Política'', pp 65 – 84, nº 10, Fundación Sistema, Madrid. (2008)]		* [http://www.fundacionsistema.com/media/PDF/Ppios10Art.Bellod.pdf , Bellod Redondo, J. F. "Monopolio e Irracionalidad: Microfundamentos de la Teoría Baran - Sweezy" in ''Principios - Estudios de Economía Política'', pp 65 – 84, nº 10, Fundación Sistema, Madrid. (2008)]
	* Foster, John Bellamy. ''Paul Sweezy & Monopoly Capital'' (Pluto Press, Sterling, 2002).		* Foster, John Bellamy. ''Paul Sweezy & Monopoly Capital'' (Pluto Press, Sterling, 2002).
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 ==Founder of ''Monthly Review''==
 In 1949, he founded ''[[Monthly Review]]'' with [[Leo Huberman]], with money from [[historian]] and [[literary critic]] [[F. O. Matthiessen]]. The first issue appeared in May of that year. It is a [[socialist]] magazine founded in the midst of the American [[Second Red Scare|Red Scare]]. In 1954 [[New Hampshire]] Attorney General [[Louis C. Wyman]] subpoenaed Sweezy and made inquiries into his political beliefs and associations, demanding to know the names of his political associates. Sweezy refused to comply, citing his [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] right of [[freedom of expression]]. He was cited for [[contempt of court]], but the [[US Supreme Court]] overturned that citation in 1957.
 ==External links==
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 *[http://www.counterpunch.org/pollin03062004.html "Remembering Paul Sweezy"] (by Robert Pollin,  ''[[CounterPunch]]'')
 *[http://www.ernestmandel.org/en/works/txt/soviet_bureaucracy.htm Why The Soviet Bureaucracy is not a New Ruling Class]  ([[Ernest Mandel]] comments on Sweezy's view of the USSR 1979)