Norton Garfinkle is an economist

Economist

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 and author

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He received a BA with honors from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and did his graduate work at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and Princeton University

Princeton University

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. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College

Amherst College

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, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.

Broadcast Appearances

On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election

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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".

Chairmanships

Garfinkle is chairman of the George Washington University

George Washington University

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 Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, and also Chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation

Future of American Democracy Foundation

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, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press

Yale University Press

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 and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".

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
  Daniel Yankelovich
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  , Yale University Press
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  , 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 978-0-300-10860-6

External links

• Transcript of July 19, 2001 the NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
• Future of American Democracy web page
• The Future of American Democracy Series at Yale University Press