Something for Nothing: A Novel (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Klein, Michael W.

 
9780262015752: Something for Nothing: A Novel (The MIT Press)
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ISBN 10: 0262015757 ISBN 13: 9780262015752
Verlag: MIT Press, 2011

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A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.

David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant professor of economics is now working in a bookstore.) So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)—affiliated with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)—wants to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate student showing the benefits of high school abstinence programs, fetchingly retitled “Something for Nothing,” he ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all, publication is “the coin of the realm,” as a senior colleague puts it.

But David faces a personal dilemma when his prized results are cast into doubt. The school year is filled with other challenges as well, including faculty politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating “job talk” lecture under trying circumstances. David's adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for everyone interested in questions of balancing career and life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.

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Michael W. Klein is William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262015757
ISBN 13 
9780262015752
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Anzahl der Seiten
324
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