This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist "e;is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone"e; (The New York Times).John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century's foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge-and knowledge of wealth-into a delightfully comical morality tale. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin sets off a mass hysteria that causes investors to believe-despite the lessons of history and physics-that up is the only direction.
| ISBN: | 9780547595610 |
| Publication date: | 4th February 1991 |
| Author: | Galbraith, John Kenneth |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Format: | Ebook |
This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist "e;is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone"e; (The New York Times).John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century's foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge-and knowledge of wealth-into a delightfully comical morality tale. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin sets off a mass hysteria that causes investors to believe-despite the lessons of history and physics-that up is the only direction.
Tenured Professor features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Tenured Professor is available in Ebook
Tenured Professor was written by Galbraith, John Kenneth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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