A Tenured Professor

A Novel

John Kenneth Galbraith

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 1991
• eBook ISBN:
  9780547595610
• Print ISBN:
  9780618154555
• Subtopic: Literature General

This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist "is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone" ( 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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Author’s Note
• The Long Table
• Disclosure
• The Culture of Subversion, I
• The Culture of Subversion, II
• California Interlude
• The Texas Test
• Money
• Correction
• Interlude
• P P W
• The Rescue
• Let There Be Peace
• The PRCs
• The Hearing
• The Takeover
• The Reckoning
• The Turn
• Books by John Kenneth Galbraith
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH