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David A. Levy is an American economist and author. He is chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center LLC, 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 and served on the federal government’s Competitive Policy Council Infrastructure Subcouncil. He has given briefings and testimony to members of Congress.
Publications
Levy is the coauthor, with Jay Levy, of Profits and the Future of American Society, published by HarperCollins in 1983. 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."
- Uncle Sam Won’t Go Broke - The Misguided Sovereign Debt Hysteria (2010), co-author Srinivas Thiruvadanthai, The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center
- Profits and the Future of American Society, (1983), HarperCollins
References
- Keynote Speakers Bureau. "David Levy, Economist and Speaker". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
- Strauss, Lawrence. "No Doom, Just Gloom".
- "David A. Levy".
- "Report of the President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting". Archived from the original on 2001-07-26. Retrieved 2012-05-02.
- Congressional Record. "103rd Congress". Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ Levy, Jay; Jay Levy, S.; Levy, David A. (1984). Profits and the Future of American Society. New American Library. ISBN 0451622901.
- "Jay Levy, Part of 'Dynasty' That Forecast 2008 Crash, Dies at 90". Bloomberg.com. 8 October 2012.
- Levy, David A.; Thiruvadanthai, Srinivas. "Uncle Sam Won't Go Broke: The Misguided Sovereign Debt Hysteria" (PDF). www.levyforecast.com. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
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