NATHANIEL WEYL (July 20, 1910 - April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1933-1939 before becoming a...ver másNATHANIEL WEYL (July 20, 1910 - April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1933-1939 before becoming a conservative and anti-communist. Born in New York City, Weyl received his BSc degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1931. He undertook postgraduate work at the London School of Economics before working as a financial reporter for the New York Post. After leaving the Communist Party, Weyl moved to Washington and accepted a post as head of the Latin American research unit at the Federal Reserve Board, later moving to the Board of Economic Warfare. He served overseas in the Army for two years during WWII. After the war, he became a journalist and author, focussing on studies of communism, especially in Latin America; espionage and internal security in the U.S.; racial, ethnic and class analyses of societies; and the roles of political and intellectual elites.
STEFAN THOMAS POSSONY was an Austrian-born U.S. economist and military strategist who conceived the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative. He graduated in 1930 from the University of Vienna in History and Economics, and with a PhD in Political Science. He was employed by the Foreign ministry before fleeing to France in 1938, where he worked with the French Foreign Affairs Ministry as a counselor in Psychological Warfare. He was also active as a consultant with the French Armed Forces. He escaped to French Algeria in 1940 and from there to the USA, where he worked with U.S. Military Intelligence. He was appointed to a position at Princeton University and later became a professor at Georgetown University, whilst remaining a consultant to the Pentagon. He later worked at Stanford University, was a Senior Fellow and director of International Studies at the Hoover Institution, and became a co-founder of the International Strategic Studies Association in 1982.ver menos