Jonathan Levy is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. His first book, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2012.
Jonathan Levy
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The Rise of Finance
In a February 2011 interview, the United States Treasury secretary insisted that the future of the American economy depends upon the continued growth of its financial sector. “I don’t have any enthusiasm,” said Timothy Geithner, for “trying to shrink the relative importance of the financial system in our economy as a test of reform, because […]
