Edward Mason
| Edward Mason (Economist) | |
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| Born | February 22, 1899 Iowa,USA |
| Died | February 29, 1992 California, US |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | University of Kansas, Harvard University, Lincoln College (Oxford) |
Spooky US economist specializing in Industrial Organization. Organized WW2 OSS research and analysis branch. Dean of Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Attended the 1956, 1963 and 1966 Bilderberg. | |
Professor Edward Sagendorph Mason was a US economist who worked at Harvard for 63 years, from the early 1920s until 1970, specializing in Industrial Organization.
Career
Mason first arrived at Harvard in 1919, but moved on to three years at Oxford after only one year. He returned to Harvard in 1923. With time out during the Second World War, he remained at Harvard for the next sixty-three years.[1]
In 1941 Mason and his colleague and old friend, William Langer, went to Washington to help organize the research and analysis branch of what originally was the Office of the Coordinator of Information, later the Office of Strategic Services. The economic division that he created had an enormous range of activity, focusing primarily on the German and Japanese economic ability to make war and on the American capacity to affect this ability through blockade, bombing and sabotage. to this office Mason attracted some of the ablest economists of that generation.[1]
In 1946 he was one of the authors of the speech of Secretary of State James Byrnes in which the Secretary announced the return of responsibility for the German economy to the Germans.[1]
From 1947 to 1958, he was Dean of what is now the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[1]
In 1954 Ed Mason directed an eight person team that drew up a development plan for Pakistan, and in 1958 he conducted a similar exercise for Iran. The Pakistan involvement led to the creation the Mason Fellows program, a mid-career program for government officials from developing countries, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.[1]