John Cassidy (journalist) explained

John Joseph Cassidy (born 1963) is an American journalist and British expatriate who is a staff writer at The New Yorker.^[1] He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, and previously, an editor at The Sunday Times of London and a deputy editor at the New York Post.

Background and education

Cassidy received his undergraduate degree from University College, Oxford, studied at Harvard University on a Harkness Fellowship, and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master's in economics from New York University.^{[2] [3]}

Economics writing

Cassidy is the author of the well-received Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, which examines the dot-com bubble,^[4] and , which combines a skeptical history of economics with an analysis of the housing bubble and credit bust. He is also well known for his biographical and economic writing on the famous Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes, whom he interprets in a largely positive light.^[5]

Bibliography

Books

• Dot.con : the greatest story ever sold (2002)^[6]
• How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities (2009)^[7]

Essays and reporting

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Blog posts

• Web site:

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Notes and full bibliographic citations

Notes and References

1. TRUMP'S INEVITABLE ACQUITTAL AND THE THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY . The New Yorker. February 2020.
2. Web site: Faculty Profile - John Cassidy. Practising Law Institute. 2013-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190106153303/https://www.pli.edu/Content/Faculty/John_Cassidy/_/N-4oZ1z12pks?ID=PE194431. 2019-01-06. dead.
3. Web site: Cassidy, John 1963 . .
4. Web site: Fallon. Ivan. 2009-11-27. How Markets Fail, By John Cassidy. 2020-09-06. The Independent. en. “Cassidy is a former British financial journalist (and a particularly brilliant one, as I can testify from having worked with him) who has made a name for himself in the US. He has a widely admired book, Dot.con, already to his credit.“
5. The Demand Doctor. . 3 October 2011.
6. Book: Cassidy, John . Dot.con : the greatest story ever sold . New York . HarperCollins . 2002 . 0060008806.
7. Book: Cassidy, John . How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities . New York . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 2009 . 9780374173203.
8. [Alan Greenspan]
9. Title in the online table of contents is "Why not just print more money?".
10. Online version is titled "The real cost of the 2008 financial crisis".