Brief biography

I'm a Durant Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College with a degree in economics. I spent two semesters at MIT to further my field of interest and was disappointed but, in their defense, health economics hadn't yet blossomed into the beast of the news-grabbing, GDP-sopping, curricula-loading economic megastar that it is now. (And Prof. Temin, your heart was just not in it that year!)

In my senior year at Wellesley, I was paid to teach freshman writing and, quite terrifyingly, became responsible for a syllabus, grades, assignments and imparting 90 minutes of wisdom twice a week. My teaching skills were wanting but I tried awfully hard.

Arjo Klamer, an economics professor at Wellesley, was writing Conversations with Economists at the time and asked me to help with reviewing it. Thus, in 1982, the book editing began.

A few years later, a headhunter sent me to the Arthur D. Little consulting firm in Cambridge, where I became a telecommunications consultant by way of the healthcare sector (honest). The venerable old firm met its demise, along with so many others, at the turn of the century. Somewhat adrift, I wrote a book (unpublished) and returned to editing academic work.

Then, one day in July 2001, Arjo said, "I need a website." Several books, languages, and years later, I still enjoy developing these works of digital art.

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1 I also love poetry and Frost is an American favorite (although it was a Sandburg poem that gave my book its title). The rather famous line in this page's header is from "The Road Not Taken" (Mountain Interval, 1920):