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Used good paperback. Greener Books Ltd. Brit Books Ltd. Cold Books. Richard Gill Economic Analyst A recognized authority in the field of economics and Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he held teaching and administrative positions over a span of 22 years. He authored 11 books, many of which have been adopted nationwide as texts for the study of economics.
In addition to his Harvard career, he spent fifteen years as an opera singer with the New York Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and other companies.
Gill earned his undergraduate degree and Ph. He oversees the work of more than professionals who cover economic, financial, and political developments in countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. News and World Report. In addition, he has taught at the Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania, and he joined Wharton Econometrics in the mids.
Behravesh holds a B. Space Program, and other key events. He now owns and manages a radio station in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, specializing in urban, social, and military history.
Jackson received his B. Owner and President of the Boras Corporation, a sports agency that represents many of the highest-profile players in professional baseball.
Boras received his B. Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, specializing in telecommunications and cable television regulation, the effects of trade policy, environmental policy, and the changing regional structure of the U. He is also Chairman of Criterion Economics. Crandall received his M. Born in , he remembers that his grandfather, father, and brother all worked at Studebaker, and that he worked up through the ranks as a laborer and then salaried personnel, rising to National Sales Manager of the Studebaker Corporation.
She is the author of The English Advantage. Flamm received her B. Formerly, he was Development Director at the Daily Mirror in London and a partner in Colour Workshop, producing illustrated book content in color. With Kodak, he developed pre-press production methods, which allowed national daily newspapers to print in color. Aslett is a graduate of the London School of Printing. Secretary of Energy, under President Jimmy Carter.
While Secretary of Defense, he opposed amnesty for draft resisters and pressed for the development of more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems. Additionally, his support for the A and the lightweight fighter program later the F helped ensure that they were carried to completion.
Between and , he taught economics at the University of Virginia and in published The Political Economy of National Security.
Schlesinger received his B. In , she tied for the number one analyst spot in the Textile and Apparel Industry. She has been interviewed and quoted by many fashion and New York magazines regarding her opinions on the fashion trade. Chief Historian at the U. Department of Agriculture in the s. He moved east in search of advanced education and work, finding both in Washington, D. Rasmussen received his B. Budget Analyst and Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, specializing in interpreting, explaining, and reforming federal budget policy.
His writings exposed the beginnings of a federal spending spree that was pushing federal spending to dangerous limits; his budget research has been featured in front-page stories and editorials in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Riedl received his B. Economist known as the leading proponent of 20th-century political liberalism, and a prolific author who produced four dozen books and more than a thousand articles, including the popular trilogy American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State. He taught at Harvard University for many years, taking leaves to serve in the presidential administrations of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Due to his prodigious literary output, he was arguably the best-known economist in the world during his lifetime and one of a select few people to be twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Galbraith received his B. From to , he was the A.
Stein received his B. Prominent attorney involved in many high-profile cases, including United States v. Boies received his B.
Telecommunications attorney and law professor specializing in United States communications policy-making and regulation. He later served as Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration during the Carter presidency. He proposed that funds raised from spectrum auctions be dedicated to the development of public broadcasting services, much like the traditional British model of public support for national programming.
His contributions to national telecommunications policy led to the National Civil Service Award in Geller received his B. Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board during the period when it ended its regulation of the airline industry, paving the way for low-cost airlines from People Express to Southwest Airlines. Kahn received his B. Ribufo received his B.
Nixon in Ruckelshaus received his B. Award-winning journalist and expert in the area of pollution and the environment. Pooley received his B. After graduating from college, he returned to the garment industry as a cutter and in became a full-time union organizer. He received his B. A leader in the U.
He began his career as a teenage worker in a machine shop, then became a skilled metal finisher in a Chrysler DeSoto factory where he joined the UAW and was twice fired for his union beliefs and activities. He was the John P. A prolific author, he wrote, edited, or contributed to books chronicling the labor movement and the history of economic thought.
He held positions in the federal government, labor movement, and academia, serving in the U. Barbash received his B. Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Editor of the quarterly journal Regulation, and expert in the regulation of housing, land, energy, the environment, transportation, and labor. Van Doren received his B.
Senator in the Maryland Legislature for nearly twenty years, specializing in fiscal affairs and government operations. Levitan received his B. He develops strategies affecting health-care providers and insurers, pharmaceuticals, consumers, and U. Spatz received his B.
In the late s, Jobs, in association with Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series.
In the early s, he was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh computer. During high school in Cupertino, California, he frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, where he was soon hired, and he worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. In , Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, then dropped out to pursue his entrepreneurial activities.
Wozniak studied engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, then dropped out to take a job at Hewlett Packard. Social scientist expert on the welfare state and a key player in the creation of New Deal and Great Society programs. He began as a research assistant during the drafting of the Social Security Act and rose to become Director of the Bureau of Research and Statistics in charge of program development and legislative coordination with Congress for the Social Security Board. President Lyndon B.
Johnson elevated him to Under Secretary in , then to U. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in Years later, his name would be synonymous with the creation of Medicare. Cohen received his B. Bush for Welfare Policy. Haskins received his B. Weil received his B. Kennedy School of Government, and J.
Arthur F. Earlier, as General Counsel of the U. Treasury Department, he had a significant role in developing proposals for the deregulation of the financial services industry. Wallison attended the Capitol Page School and received his B. He also developed a system that tracked five fundamental quantities: population, pollution, food production, industrialization, and consumption of resources.
Forrester received his undergraduate degree from the Engineering College at the University of Nebraska.
Member of President Dwight D. Beginning in , he worked at an exporting firm in Argentina, a bank in Chile, and a securities firm on Wall Street. Treasury Department. Wallich received his B. He has conducted ground-breaking research on technology and innovation, is a valued adviser to state and national policy makers, and is a popular speaker on innovation policy. Before founding ITIF, he was Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and Director of its Technology and New Economy Project, writing policy papers on broadband telecommunications, Internet telephony, universal service, e-commerce, e-government, privacy, and off-shoring.
Atkinson received his Ph. Congressman from West Virginia, —, and U. Senator, —, where he was Chair of several committees and achieved note for sponsoring an amendment to the Constitution that would grant citizens between 18 and 21 the right to vote.
In , after eleven different sponsorships from Randolph, amendments to the Voting Rights Act lowered the voting age to 18 in both local and national elections. Randolph graduated from Salem Academy in and Salem College in Senior Fellow of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and noted health-care expert, focusing on financial reform of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and tax and budget policy. Aaron received his B.
Social scientist expert on the welfare state and key player in the creation of New Deal and Great Society programs. From to , he was an attorney for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a consultant to the Senate on social, economic, industrial, and financial issues, legislative assistant to Democratic New York Senator Robert F. Wagner, and General Counsel to the U. Keyserling received his B.
He was also the health and safety coordinator for Change to Win. He is a leading national trade union spokesperson on issues of job safety, health, and disability, including OSHA standard-setting and enforcement and surveillance of occupational disease and injury.
Economist and lawyer, renowned for his work during the Depression and World War II and for his ability to explain complex economic theories in plain language. He was among the first economists to apply economic theories directly from within the marketplace rather than from academia.
He spent a good part of the Depression gathering unemployment statistics, which gave him a keen insight into the free enterprise system. Heavily involved in U. After the war, he started a consultancy firm called Robert R. Nathan Associates.
Nathan received his B. Department of Commerce. She has taught economic accounting, most recently at George Washington University. Carson received her B.
Chief Economist for the U. Department of Commerce, — He was also the U. Kendrick received his B. Chief U. His expertise includes short-term and long-term economic outlooks, government economic policies, the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, trade, labor, and consumer-market issues. He has more than 20 years of experience in economic analysis and forecasting. Gault received his M. Wisconsin Governor, —, and U.
Senator, —, specializing in the environment and small business. Kennedy and was the principal founder of Earth Day. Senator Nelson received his B. He served as an adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Samuelson received his B. Economist who regarded himself as a social theorist, integrating disciplines of history, economics, and philosophy. He authored Worldly Philosophers, as well as Economics, the second-best-selling economics textbook of all time.
Heilbroner received his B. Economist who served as adviser in domestic and foreign affairs for presidents Franklin D. Truman, and Dwight D. He helped draft the Marshall Plan and was prominent in business and education. He also served on the U. Prior to , he worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he compiled centralized data that led to the publication of Business Annals, a book of economic statistics for 17 countries dating back to Thorp received his B.
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing in the regulation of financial institutions and markets. A financial institutions investment banker for two decades, principally at J. Morgan, he was the founder and principal researcher for the Center on Federal Financial Institutions. He has researched financial institutions or worked directly with them as clients in a range of capacities, including as an equities analyst, credit analyst, mergers and acquisitions specialist, relationship officer, and specialist in securitizations.
His work encompasses banks, insurers, funds management firms, and other financial institutions. Elliott received an A. Economist and expert on the works of 20th-century economist Hyman P. Minsky, whose alternative theories for why the U. Minsky; Hyman P. Papadimitriou received his B. Prominent broadcast journalist best known for his work at CBS where he served as Chief of the Washington Bureau, — Murrow in London, where he reported on the Battle of Britain throughout the war.
Sevareid received his B. Canadian economist credited with writing the first introductory textbook on Keynesian thinking, The Elements of Economics, in He began his academic career as an instructor at Tufts University.
After the war, he taught at Stanford, where he became Chair of the Department of Economics. Later, he taught at the University of Toronto and remained there until he retired. Tarshis received his B. Economist noted for his work on John Maynard Keynes. Salant later joined the fiscal policy seminar at Harvard that trained economists in the Keynesian foundation.
Salant received his B. Under President George W. Holtz-Eakin received his B. Before and after government service, he taught at the University of Minnesota where he became Chair of the Department of Economics. Heller received his B. As Chairman of the CEA, McCracken pursued economic policies of restraint to curb inflation without increasing unemployment.
He opposed a revival of mandatory wage and price controls, favored by some economists. He often appeared in conflict with the Federal Reserve respecting monetary policy, favoring a more liberal policy than the Federal Reserve had been willing to allow. McCracken received his B. During the New York City bankruptcy crisis in the mids, Gotbaum and DC37 agreed to major collective bargaining concessions, which set a pattern that forced other municipal unions to do the same.
For 26 years preceding the creation of his company, he was Managing Director for Salomon Brothers, Inc. In , he joined Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. Kaufman received his B. He held a brief stint as a television reporter before returning to print, founding the critically acclaimed Boston Observer.
When the Observer lost its funding, he worked for Inc. In , he garnered controversy for a column he published lambasting Republican politicians for blocking new health-care legislation. Pearlstein received his B. She is a frequent speaker on topics affecting the financial services industry. Petrou received her B. Economist and expert on the world banking system, specializing in foreign debt obligations of Third World countries.
Department of Commerce, under President John F. Kennedy, and in President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to an eight-year year term on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the first African American to serve. Brimmer received his B. In , he became Editor of the American Economic Review. Before these appointments, he was a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Presiding during a period of economic turmoil, his Federal Reserve chairmanship has been contentious.
Bernanke received his B. Adviser to the federal government during World War II, valued for his expertise in monetary policy. During the war, he was associated with the rubber and chemical branches of the Office of Price Administration.
Chandler received his B. He has written extensively on issues related to monetary policy and its implementation by the Federal Reserve, and his work has been published in volumes issued by the Federal Reserve System, the Bank of England, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Korea, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Brookings Institution. Kohn received his B. He teaches at Princeton University as the Gordon S. He has authored and co-authored 17 books and is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Blinder received his B. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio and has written many books, including Systematic Thinking for Social Action, Reviving the American Dream, and Beyond the Dot.
Rivlin received her B. Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, —, credited with leadership in ending a period of high and rising inflation and restoring a base for sustained growth.
Later, he became chairman of the firm of James D.
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