Bennett Harrison (June 27, 1942 Jersey City – January 17, 1999, Brooklyn Heights) was a leading radical political economist, writer, musician, songwriter.
His father's name was Horowitz but he eventually changed it to Harrison to get a job at a radio station.
[1] Bennett published a book in 1994, Lean and Mean, challenging a widely held belief that small and medium firms or businesses are responsible for the majority of economic innovation, growth and job creation.
Focused on exposing the "middle-class malaise" and social inequalities, he argued in favor of more government involvement in the US economy, and contributed to the creation of the Union of Radical Political Economists in the 1960s.
In 1991, he left the urban studies and planning department at MIT to follow his then-wife in Pittsburgh.