Galbraith's heterodox teacher: Leo Rogin's historical approach to the meaning and validity of economic theory.
Journal of Economic Issues › Vol. 42 Nbr. 2, June 2008
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Galbraith's heterodox teacher: Leo Rogin's historical approach to the meaning and validity of economic theory.
A Leading Heterodox Economist of the 1930s and 1940s
The great American heterodox economist John Kenneth Galbraith studied with orthodox neoclassical Marshallians and with agricultural specialists, but he also had an outstanding heterodox teacher, Leo Rogin (1893-1947). As a graduate student in agricultural economics at the University of California at Berkeley from 1931 to 1934, Galbraith was "introduced to Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, the early John Maynard Keynes and the great German economists who sought truth in history and of whom only Werner Sombart seriously entered my consciousness ... by Leo Rogin, a teacher who established himself firmly in the affections of all my generation" (Galbraith 1981, 29). "In the early thirties, years before the Keynesian revolution, Leo Rogin was discussing Keynes with a sense of urgency that made his seminars seem to graduate students the most important things then happening in the world" (Galbraith 1971, 349). As a student of Wesley Mitchell (who in turn studied with Thorstein Veblen), Rogin also linked Galbraith to the American institutional tradition. Rogin's Columbia Ph.D. dissertation...See the full content of this document
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