A Tenured Professor Paperback - 2001
by John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. 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 initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's wisest and wittiest" novel (New York Times), A Tenured Professor is an impudently satirical tale.
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- Title A Tenured Professor
- Author John Kenneth Galbraith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition None
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0618154558I5N00
- ISBN 9780618154555 / 0618154558
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects College teachers, Economists
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89039559
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. 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 initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's wisest and wittiest" novel (New York Times), A Tenured Professor is an impudently satirical tale.
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HARVARD YARD, the ancient center of college and university instruction, is an enclosure of a bit more than twenty acres in extent that is now the site only of libraries, a few classrooms, the handsome administration building, a number of dormitories for the entering class, a church and the stretch of greensward on which the annual commencement ceremonies are held.
