Robert Alexander Brady (May 13, 1901 – June 14, 1963) was an American economist who analyzed the dynamics of technological change and the structure of business enterprise.
Brady developed a potent analysis of fascism and other emerging authoritarian economic and cultural practices.
In The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism (1937) and Business as a System of Power (1943), important works in historical and comparative economics, Brady traced the rise of bureaucratic centralism in Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the United States; and the emergence of an authoritarian model of economic growth and development.
He had been exposed to Veblen's thought all along the way, most systematically at Columbia, where he worked closely with John Maurice Clark.
During his years of graduate study, he taught at Cornell, Hunter College, Cooper Union, and New York University.