Robert Hessen was an American economic and business historian.
11 Facts About Robert Hessen
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Robert Hessen was a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
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Robert Hessen was an Objectivist and authored several books, analyzing business and economic issues from an Objectivist perspective.
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Robert Hessen received his Bachelor of Arts from Queens College, his Master of Arts from Harvard University, and then his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University.
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Robert Hessen was associated with philosopher Ayn Rand for 25 years, contributed articles to two of her periodicals, as well as her book, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
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Robert Hessen was a featured commentator on Milton Friedman's award-winning PBS television documentary series, Free to Choose.
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In 1985, Hessen joined the Board of Advisors of the newly formed Ayn Rand Institute.
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Robert Hessen was the editor of the multi-volume series Hoover Archival Documentaries.
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Robert Hessen was featured in shorter works in such diverse publications as The New York Times, Barron's, Business History Review, Labor History, The Hastings Law Journal and the Journal of Law and Economics.
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Robert Hessen's essays, discussing capitalism and presenting a private-property-and-contractual model of corporations, were published in the Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
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Robert Hessen died at Stanford Hospital on April 15,2024, at the age of 87.