David Levy (economist)

David A. Levy is an American economist[1][2] and author. He is chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center LLC,[3] an economic consultancy.

Education

Levy holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University.

Career

Levy was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission to Study Capital Budgeting in 1997[4] and served on the federal government’s Competitive Policy Council Infrastructure Subcouncil. He has given briefings and testimony to members of Congress.[5]

Publications

Levy is the coauthor, with Jay Levy, of Profits and the Future of American Society, published by HarperCollins in 1983.[6] Forbes magazine praised the book for explaining "why squeezing business profits for the alleged benefit of the poor or of the working man is a self-defeating exercise. It leads not to the satisfaction of human needs but to inflation and unemployment."[7]

  • Uncle Sam Won’t Go Broke - The Misguided Sovereign Debt Hysteria (2010), co-author Srinivas Thiruvadanthai, The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center[8]
  • Profits and the Future of American Society, (1983), HarperCollins[6]

References
  1. Keynote Speakers Bureau. "David Levy, Economist and Speaker".
  2. Strauss, Lawrence. "No Doom, Just Gloom".
  3. http://levyforecast.com/david-a-levy/
  4. http://clinton3.nara.gov/pcscb/report.html
  5. Congressional Record. "103rd Congress". Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. https://www.amazon.com/Profits-Future-American-Society-Levy/dp/0451622901
  7. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-08/jay-levy-part-of-dynasty-that-forecast-2008-crash-dies-at-90
  8. http://levyforecast.com/jlwp/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2010/12/Uncle-Sam-Wont-Go-Broke.pdf


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