Tenured Professor (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

9781560540601: Tenured Professor (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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ISBN 10: 1560540605 ISBN 13: 9781560540601

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 1991

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When Harvard's faculty recruited Montgomery Marvin, they wanted a professor with impeccable credentials, an impressive body of work, and the right political attitudes. To their surprise and discomfort, they got much more - the creator of the Index of Irrational Expectations (IRAT).

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About the Author

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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