David Levy (economist)
{{short description|American economist and author}}
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David A. Levy is an American economist{{cite web|last=Keynote Speakers Bureau|title=David Levy, Economist and Speaker|url=http://dev.keynotespeakers.com/speaker_detail.php?speakerid=5218|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222441/http://dev.keynotespeakers.com/speaker_detail.php?speakerid=5218|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Strauss|first=Lawrence|title=No Doom, Just Gloom|url=http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123638332478657959.html#articleTabs_article%3D1}} and author. He is chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center LLC,{{Cite web|url=http://levyforecast.com/david-a-levy/|title = David A. Levy}} an economic consultancy.
Education
Levy holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University.
Career
Levy was appointed by President Clinton to the Commission to Study Capital Budgeting in 1997{{Cite web |url=http://clinton3.nara.gov/pcscb/report.html |title=Report of the President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting |access-date=2012-05-02 |archive-date=2001-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010726225809/http://clinton3.nara.gov/pcscb/report.html |url-status=dead }} and served on the federal government’s Competitive Policy Council Infrastructure Subcouncil. He has given briefings and testimony to members of Congress.{{cite web|last=Congressional Record|title=103rd Congress|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?r103:./temp/~r103N5fQ3z|accessdate=31 January 2013}}{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Publications
Levy is the coauthor, with Jay Levy, of Profits and the Future of American Society, published by HarperCollins in 1983.{{Cite book|isbn = 0451622901|title = Profits and the Future of American Society|last1 = Levy|first1 = Jay|last2 = Jay Levy|first2 = S.|last3 = Levy|first3 = David A.|year = 1984| publisher=New American Library }} Forbes magazine praised the book for explaining "why squeezing business profits for the alleged benefit of the poor or of the working man is a self-defeating exercise. It leads not to the satisfaction of human needs but to inflation and unemployment."{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-08/jay-levy-part-of-dynasty-that-forecast-2008-crash-dies-at-90|title=Jay Levy, Part of 'Dynasty' That Forecast 2008 Crash, Dies at 90|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=8 October 2012}}
- Uncle Sam Won’t Go Broke - The Misguided Sovereign Debt Hysteria (2010), co-author Srinivas Thiruvadanthai, The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center{{Cite web |last1=Levy |first1=David A. |last2=Thiruvadanthai |first2=Srinivas |title=Uncle Sam Won't Go Broke: The Misguided Sovereign Debt Hysteria |url=http://levyforecast.com/jlwp/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2010/12/Uncle-Sam-Wont-Go-Broke.pdf |access-date=22 November 2024 |website=www.levyforecast.com}}
- Profits and the Future of American Society, (1983), HarperCollins
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