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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1919; 106 years ago (1919) |
Parent institution | The New School |
| Accreditation | NYSED MSCHE |
| Dean | Alex Aleinikoff[1] |
Academic staff | 75[2] |
| Students | 789[3] |
| Location | , US 40°44′8.08″N73°59′49.08″W / 40.7355778°N 73.9969667°W /40.7355778; -73.9969667 |
| Campus | Urban |
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| Mascot | Gnarls the Narwhal[5] |
| Website | newschool |
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The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known asThe University in Exile andThe New School University, is a graduate-level educational division ofThe New School inNew York City,United States. NSSR enrolls more than 1,000 students from the United States, as well as students from other countries.
The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 by a group of progressive intellectuals (mostly fromColumbia University andThe New Republic) who had grown dissatisfied with the growing bureaucracy and fragmentation of higher education in the United States.[6] These included, among others,Charles Beard,John Dewey,James Harvey Robinson, andThorstein Veblen.[7] In its earliest manifestation, the New School was an adult education institution that gave night lectures to fee-paying students. There were no admissions requirements and the New School did not confer degrees.[8]
The first set of lectures included courses by economists Thorstein Veblen,Wesley Clair Mitchell, andHarold Laski, though these economists did not remain on the faculty long.[9] In the ensuing decade, the New School hosted courses by a diverse array of economists, includingLeo Wolman, a labor statistician with theAmalgamated Clothing Workers of America, andFrederick Macaulay, who later formalized the financial conceptbond duration.[10] During this period,John Maynard Keynes andBenjamin Graham also gave multiple guest lectures at The New School.[11][12] One lasting presence at the New School was the economist-turned-administratorAlvin Saunders Johnson, who was the school's first president.[13]
In response to the Nazi Germany's 1933Civil Service Restoration Act, an act that dismissed over 1,200 Jewish or radical academics from German state-run institutions, Alvin Johnson raised $120,000 fromHiram Halle to create a "University in Exile" at The New School consisting of the dismissed European academics.[14] Financial contributions were also obtained from theRockefeller Foundation.[citation needed] The initial group includedEmil Lederer,Frieda Wunderlich,Hans Staudinger,Eduard Heimann,Karl Brandt,Hans Simons andGerhard Colm.[9] A second wave of academics fleeing Europe after France fell to the Nazis in 1939 includedAdolph Lowe,Jacob Marschak,Abba Lerner,Franco Modigliani, Hans Neisser, andEmil J. Gumbel.[9]
Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologistsErich Fromm andMax Wertheimer, political philosophersHannah Arendt andLeo Strauss, social psychologistEverett Dean Martin, philosophersAron Gurwitsch,Hans Jonas, andReiner Schürmann, sociologistsAlfred Schutz,Peter L. Berger, andArthur Vidich, economistsAdolph Lowe andRobert Heilbroner, and historiansCharles Tilly andLouise Tilly.
In 1934, the émigré faculty received a provisional charter from the State of New York to grant graduate degrees. With the charter, the faculty changed their name from the University in Exile to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. The faculty taught night classes in English to New Yorkers. In 1935, there were 150 registered graduate students; in 1940, this had grown to 520 students. Prior to 1960, the Graduate Faculty was not split into academic departments. Many faculty had interests that crossed disciplinary boundaries, from economics into sociology or philosophy. Accordingly, students (likeFranco Modigliani) receivedM.Sc.'s andD.Sc.'s in theSocial Sciences rather than in Economics, Psychology, or Sociology.[15]
In 1964,John R. Everett became the President of the New School for Social Research, which position he held until he retired in 1982.[16][17][18][19]Harry Gideonse was Chancellor of the New School for Social Research from 1966 until 1975, when he retired.
.jpg) 6 E 16th St, NYC -The home of the New School for Social Research | |
| Type | Private Not-for-Profit |
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| Established | 1919 (The New School) 1933 (The University in Exile) 1960 (Economics Department) |
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| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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The Department of Economics is anacademic department within The New School for Social Research. The faculty has contributed to economic theories such as,Post-Keynesian,Marxian,Institutional,Structuralist, andPolitical economics.
From 1958 to 1963, The New School suffered from another budgetary crisis. The school was running a deficit that it could not repay. Economists and administrators Alvin Johnson and Hans Staudinger led a "Save the School" fundraising campaign that narrowly saved the school from bankruptcy.[20] In order to make the school more conventional and fundable, the administration reorganized the Graduate Faculty into five departments: Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Political Science. This reorganization began in the late 1950's, but was only solidified in the 1960 course catalogs.[21][9]
As the German émigrés retired, the Economics department began to appoint new economists, beginning withDavid Schwartzman, an industrial organization economist who had studied withMilton Friedman andGeorge Stigler, andThomas Vietorisz, a specialist in the economics ofplanning.[9]
In 1968,Robert Heilbroner (Ph.D., 1963) was appointed assistant Professor of Economics. Heilbroner had, while a graduate student at The New School, publishedThe Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Great Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.The Worldly Philosophers was inspired by a class on Adam Smith taught by Heilbroner's teacher, Adolph Lowe.[22] In the book, Heilbroner discusses the evolution of economic thought using of the lives and times of the great economists. This focus on thehistory of economic thought permeated Heilbroner's teaching and writing.[23]
In 1969 and 1970,Edward Nell andStephen Hymer were appointed to the faculty. Nell's work focused on economic methodology andPost-Keynesian Economics while Hymer was aMarxian economist whose Ph.D. supervisor wasCharles Kindleberger.[24][25]
Together, the faculty launched a graduate program in Political Economy in 1971. In the May 1971 press release, Heilbroner emphasized that the goal of the faculty was to give students training in a variety of traditions of economic analysis.[26] In 1972 and 1973, the faculty hiredAnwar Shaikh andDavid Gordon, two young and radical economists with divergent approaches to economics: Shaikh initially focused on international trade and Marxian economic theory while Gordon focused on labor research and econometric models.[27] In 1974,Heidi Hartmann joined the faculty to develop a gender and economics program.[28] In 1975,Paul Sweezy taught a course on Karl Marx.[29]
In the late 1970's,Gita Sen, Ross Thomson, andWilli Semmler joined the faculty. In 1982,John Eatwell joined the Department on a part-time arrangement.[30] During the 1980's and 1990's, the faculty had many shorter-term appointments and visitors, includingNancy Folbre,Heinz Kurz,Rhonda Williams,Alice Amsden, andThomas Palley.[9]
In the 1990's, the economics department hired a number of faculty who would remain for decades: William Milberg,Lance Taylor, andDuncan Foley.[9] In 1995, David Gordon, John Eatwell, andBill Janeway together founded the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), though Gordon died soon after founding CEPA.[31]
In 1997, the school was renamed New School University. It was renamed the "New School for Social Research" in 2005, returning to the original name of the university. Its various colleges were regrouped under various names such asCollege of Performing Arts (taking on the existing music, jazz, and drama schools),Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts,Parsons School of Design andThe New School for Public Engagement (taking on Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, plus media studies, language studies and other programs). The university also continued with a separate new institution The New School for Social Research under the general banner of The New School.
In 2004, the student union founded The New School Economic Review, a student run peer-reviewed journal.[32]