George J. W. Goodman (1930–2014)
Author of The Money Game
About the Author
George J. W. Goodman was born in Clayton, Missouri on August 10, 1930. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, then studied political economy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was an intelligence analyst in the Army in the mid-1950s and then wrote about various topics for show more Barron's, Time, Fortune and other magazines. He wrote several novels during the 1950's including The Bubble Makers and The Wheeler Dealers, which was adapted into a movie starring James Garner and Lee Remick in 1963. Goodman wrote the screenplay. He also wrote a children's book, Bascombe, the Fastest Hound Alive, which was published in 1958. He was given the pseudonym Adam Smith as a journalist for New York magazine in the 1960s, to hide his identity from sensitive Wall Street sources. His first book as Adam Smith, The Money Game, was published in 1968. His other books about economics include Supermoney and Paper Money. He helped start Institutional Investor magazine in the 1960s and was executive editor of Esquire in the 1970s. He was the host of Adam Smith's Money World on PBS from 1984 to 1997. He died from complications of leukemia on January 3, 2014 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
The George Jerome Waldo Goodman, journalist, television personality, and novelist. The same author as George Goodman (2) and Adam Smith (2)
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1964, Vol. 27, No. 5 (1964) — Author (under shared pseudonym Adam Smith) — 13 copies
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- Legal name
- Goodman, George Jerome Waldo
- Other names
- Smith, Adam
- Birthdate
- 1930-08-10
- Date of death
- 2014-01-03
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Oxford
Harvard University - Occupations
- journalist
columnist
television host - Organizations
- The New York Times
US Army Special Forces
The Institutional Investor (founder - 1967) - Awards and honors
- G. M. Loeb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Writing about Business and Finance, University of Connecticut, 1969
Rhodes Scholar - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Place of death
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- The George Jerome Waldo Goodman, journalist, television personality, and novelist. The same author as George Goodman (2) and Adam Smith (2)
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Something of a relic of its time, since these essays were written in the go-go years of the 1960s stock markets. To that extent, it's valuable as a time capsule, but that's about it. The humour can be very forced at times, and if you read the essays all at once, there's a certain "get on with it" attitude that creeps up over you. A few insights, but mostly historical value.
Amazing how timely this book sounds today. Even Buffett is still around. The author describes the new computerized trading in its earliest days, the debt days of Wall St traders. And funny. Really funny book.
The author of "The Money Game" turns to the mysteries of Inner Space. He ingests LSD as part of a group whose mission is to "come back and tell us what you found".
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He does the usual biofeedback, samadi tank, and participatory events, but on the way interviews some extraordinary investigators -- brain scientists, a swami, tennis teacher, physicists, chemists. show more Explores "consciousness". show less
Can we control our heads? How about blood pressure and pain? Can we pop into an alpha state without pills? What is an alpha state?
He does the usual biofeedback, samadi tank, and participatory events, but on the way interviews some extraordinary investigators -- brain scientists, a swami, tennis teacher, physicists, chemists. show more Explores "consciousness". show less
What is remarkable about this book is how ie speaks to the issues that led to the meltdown of 2007 and 2008. The missage is sim;ple.. Beware.Many of the Amazon nreviewers commented on how the book is a pleasure to read. It it. there is humor as well as advice.
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