Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Instead, they bullied him until he died. A heart attack took Baran’s life in 1964 at the young age of fifty-four. He never got to see his masterwork, Monopoly Capital, written with Sweezy, published. Earlier that year, he complained to his writing partner, “For next year I got a teaching load that is about twice as large as that of my ‘peers,’ with pay of about 60 percent of theirs, and all this with a broad grin: ‘Look at us, how democratic and free and tolerant we are!’”