Leo Huberman

Leo Huberman (October 17, 1903 – November 9, 1968) was an American socialist economist.

[1] He was the chair of the Department of Social Science at New College, Columbia University; labor editor of the newspaper PM; and the author of the popular history books Man’s Worldly Goods and We, the People: The Drama of America.

[2] The next-to-youngest of eleven children of Joseph and Fannie Kramerman-Huberman he was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey.

From the age of eleven he studied at Newark State School, as well as supporting the family by working in a celluloid factory, as an electrician's mate and in the post office.

Mathiessen, he founded the left-wing magazine Monthly Review, and became its chief editor.