Background
Franklyn Holzman was born on December 31, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Abraham Holzman and Mollie Holzman.
Franklyn Holzman
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Franklyn Holzman studied at the University of North Carolina. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Franklyn Holzman studied at Harvard University. He got a Master of Art and a Doctor of Philosophy.
Franklyn Holzman was born on December 31, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Abraham Holzman and Mollie Holzman.
Franklyn Holzman studied at the University of North Carolina, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in 1940. Also, he graduated from Harvard. Franklyn received there a Master of Arts in 1948 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1952.
Franklyn Holzman was an expert on the economy of the former Soviet Union and a critic of President Ronald Reagan's defense budget. After education, during World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps in Ukraine. It was here that he first became interested in studying the Soviet economy.
After the war, Franklyn Holzman was an economist and consultant for the United States Department of the Treasury before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 1952, where he taught until 1961. Also, Franklyn served as a research fellow in 1949-1952 and, in 1961, became a research associate at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. Franklyn then moved on to Tufts University, where he held the position of a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy until retiring in 1992. Besides, Franklyn was a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1956, Stanford University in 1957, Columbia University in 1961, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.
In addition to the educator's career, Franklyn Holzman served as a consultant at the United Nations in 1963-1964 and 1989, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1964-1973, Joint Economics Committee, United States Congress in 1959, 1973, and 1981. Also, he consulted at the United States Commission on Trade and Investment Policy in 1971, United States Department of Commerce in 1972, and 1975-1978, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Brookings Institution in 1978.
As a researcher and author, Franklyn Holzman revealed flaws in the Soviet economy, such as in his Soviet Taxation: The Fiscal and Monetary Problems of a Planned Economy. In that book, he showed that tax laws in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ran counter to the Communist idea of fair distribution of wealth. Some of Franklyn's other writings about the Soviet economy include Financial Checks on Soviet Defense Expenditures, The Soviet Economy: Past, Present, and Future, and The Economics of the Soviet Bloc Trade and Finance. He was also an expert on foreign trade and inflation.
In the 1980s, Franklyn Holzman argued that the Soviet Union could not sustain its military budget, which was far less than had been thought. He felt, furthermore, that President Reagan inflated figures for Soviet spending to gain approval for his military budget. Franklyn later was proved correct when the Soviet Union collapsed, and some of its records were made public.
Franklyn Holzman married to Mathilda Sara Wiesman on December 14, 1946. They had three children: Thomas Ludwig, David Carl, and Miriam Alexandra.