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Joseph Borkin (born 12. November 1911 in New York City; died 5. Juli 1979 in Chevy Chase (Maryland)) was an US-American economic lawyer and book author.

Live and career
Joseph Borkin studied economics at New York university (B.A. and M.A.) and law at National University School of Law in Washington, D.C.

Initially, Borkin worked for the US Congress und for a committee of investigations of the US Senat on allegations of corruption against the munitions industry. In 1938, he entered the service of the Department of Justice as a assistent of the Assistent Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Until 1946, he was chief economist in the Antitrust agency and worked on the German IG Farben concern and its international cartel connections.

Since 1946, he worked  as a freelance lawyer and economic adviosor and was affiliated with the office of Lawler, Kent & Eisenberg. He took over a lecture on business ethics at Catholic University of America. In 1978, he published his occupationally collected insights into the history of the I.G. Farben under the title "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben".

Borkin was member of several professional associations of lawyers and also member of the American Economic Association and of the National Press Club. He also published about literary works, on Sigmund Freud and on the Indonese language. A book about the effectiveness of Antitrust prosecutions and one about the role of the lawyer in the Watergate scandal remained uncompleted. Borkin was married with Pauline Borkin, they had two children.

Works (in collection)

 * with Frank C. Waldrop: Television: a struggle for power. Einführung George Henry Payne. New York, W. Morrow and Co., 1938
 * with Charles Welsh: Germanys Master Plan : The Story of Industrial Offensive. Einleitung Thurman Arnold. New York : Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1943
 * Robert R. Young, the populist of Wall Street. New York, Harper & Row, 1954
 * The corrupt judge : an inquiry into bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors in the federal courts. New York : Clarkson N. Potter, 1962
 * The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben. New York : Free Press, 1978
 * Die unheilige Allianz der IG Farben. Eine Interessengemeinschaft im Dritten Reich. Übersetzung Bernhard Schulte. Frankfurt am Main : Campus, 1979

Weblinks

 * Entries in the bibliografic data base


 * Richard Pearson: Joseph Borkin, Antitrust Lawyer, Author Dies, obituary, in: Washington Post, 6. Juli 1979
 * Joseph Borkin, 67; Author of an Analysis Of I. G. Farben Cartel, obituary, in: NYT, 6. Juli 1979