Lester C. Thurow, Ph.D., looked at the difficulties democratic societies face when losses must be allocated to restore economic progress.
Program Titles
- The Future of Capitalism
- Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies
- He focuses on international economics, public finance, macroeconomics and income distribution economics.
Lester Thurow, Ph.D., (Economics) has been a professor of management and economics for many years. He was dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He taught at Harvard after a term as a staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson’s Council on Economic Advisers.
He focuses on international economics, public finance, macroeconomics and income distribution economics.
Writes for the general public in a number of American and international newspapers, and appears regularly on a television program — “The Nightly Business Report.” He has been featured on “60 Minutes” and has been on the cover of Atlantic magazine.
Thurow is the author of several books, looks at the nature of the global economic competition.
Looked at the forces changing the structure of the world economy.
He analyzes how a knowledge-based economy works and what it takes to generate wealth in this environment.
An avid outdoorsman, Thurow’s most recent adventures range from a safari across Saudi Arabia to hunting polar bears with a camera in the Arctic to mountain climbing in South America and the Himalayas.
In the past, Dr. Thurow has served on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for Newsweek and as a member of Time magazine’s Board of Economists.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as vice president of the American Economics Association.
Books by Lester C. Thurow, Ph.D.
- The Zero-Sum Society
- Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America
- The Future of Capitalism
- Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies
- Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy
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