Marvin Hoffenberg

Marvin Hoffenberg (1914–2012) was an American economist and political scientist. He was an economist for the United States Department of Labor, the RAND Corporation, Johns Hopkins University's Operations Research Office, and The Aerospace Corporation. He was a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1965 to 1986.

Early life Marvin Hoffenberg was born on July 7, 1914, in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in 1939. Later in life, he recounted that the Labor Department was his only option as Washington, D.C., was still segregated: "if you were Jewish, you could work for the Department of Labor and, if you were Catholic, you could work for the Department of Commerce."

Hoffenberg became a consultant for the Mutual Security Agency working on the Marshall Plan in Paris in 1952. They were both Jewish.

Death and legacy He died on December 30, 2012.