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"I now know it is a rising, not a setting, sun" --Benjamin Franklin, 1787
J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at U.C Berkeley, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Chair of Berkeley's Political Economy major.
Among his best works are: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
I've often said that the best way to describe the modern GOP is that they are people who read a lot of Dickens and came away thinking that it all sounded pretty great. They're not following Ayn Rand, they're simply confused about Dickens.
Posted by: Steve Balboni | December 19, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Another swindler is Augustus Melmotte, from Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" (although it's been ages since I've read that book).
Posted by: Delicious Pundit | December 19, 2008 at 12:50 PM
There are other online versions
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dorrit
Posted by: degustibus | December 20, 2008 at 07:59 PM
The best book on a ponzi scheme ever written is R.K. Narayan's "The Financial Expert". It is exceptionally entertaining.
Posted by: RK | December 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM