The author is Professor Emeritus of Economics at St. John's University, NY. He holds a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. The author held the Henry George Chair in Economics and served as Associate Dean and Dean of the University's business school. He has dozens of academic publications on a variety of economic and business topics. The book combines his 57 years of teaching Economics with his hobby of stamp collecting.

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