Norton Garfinkle
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Norton Garfinkle (born February 26, 1931) is an economist and author.
He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.
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[edit] Broadcast Appearances
On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election.
On February 3, 2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of U.S. Middle Class".
[edit] Chairmanships
Garfinkle is chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies[1], and also Chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation[2], a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies,[3] "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
[edit] Books
- Lincoln and the coming of the Civil War (Problems in American Civilization Series), editor, DC Heath and Company, various editions 1959 - 1967
- Uniting America: Restoring the Vital Center to American Democracy (The Future of American Democracy Series), editor with Daniel Yankelovich, Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN 0-300-10856-7
- The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (The Future of American Democracy Series), Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10860-6
