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JEFFREY MADRICK
Senior Fellow  

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise U.S. Economic Policy, Finance, Computers and Productivity 

 

Experience 
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Taking America (Bantam), and The End of Affluence (Random House), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by Business Week as one of the ten best books of the year. His most recent book is Why Economies Grow (Basic Books).

 

He has served as a policy consultant for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and other U.S. legislators. He has written for many other publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and the business, op-ed, and magazine sections of The New York Times. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, The Lehrer News Hour, Now With Bill Moyers, Frontline,, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and NPR. Formerly he was finance editor of Business Week Magazine and an NBC News reporter and commentator.

 

His awards include an Emmy and a Page One Award. He was educated at New York University and Harvard University, and was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard.

 

He is currently at work on a biographical history of the American economy, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a brief work on the purposes of government, to be published by Princeton University Press.

 

 

Honors & Affiliations

Emmy

Page One Award
 

 

Education 
MBA, Harvard University 
 

 

Contact jgmadrick(at)aol.com

 

 

 

BOOKS

Taking America: How We got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiders and Scandals

Beard Books, 2003

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Business Week named it one of ten best books of the year

 

 

 

 

 

Why Economies Grow: The Forces that Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again

Westview Press, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America’s Economic Dilemma

Random House, 1997

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

 

View interview with Charlie Rose about this book, here.

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

 

View his New York Times columns here

 

New York Review of Books essays  and a collection of other essays here 

"The Specter Haunting Old Age" New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008.

"The Decent Society: An Economic Agenda for the New President," World Policy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1999.

 

 

 

 

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

Participated in a one day workshop, “The Economics of Global Warming,” Oct. 12, 2007, The New School.

 

 

 

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