cover image Tenured Professor Pa

Tenured Professor Pa

John Kenneth Galbraith. Mariner Books, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-395-57424-9

Harvard economics professor Montgomery Marvin, seeking proof that human folly has no limit when motivated by greed, amasses a fortune through the stock market and uses it to promote decidedly liberal causes. According to PW , this is a ``succinct parable for our times, a rare comedy of point and precision.'' (Mar.)