1 Richard Parker Shorenstein Center Harvard Kennedy School 617-216-2752
[email protected] Employment Senior Fellow, Shorenstein Center, and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1993-present Advisor to Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Daniel P. Moynihan on Soviet bloc economic reforms, Washington, DC, 1988-1992 Founder and CEO, Richard Parker & Associates, San Francisco and Washington, DC, 1981-1987 Co-founder, Editor, Publisher, Mother Jones, San Francisco, 1976-1981 Managing Editor, Ramparts, San Francisco, 1976 Co-founder, Santa Barbara Independent, 1975-1976 Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1972-1975 Education D.Phil., Oxford University, 1972, Economics B.A., Dartmouth College, 1968, Economics Books Nixon’s Ghosts: How Richard Milhous Nixon Created the World We Live in Today, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, hardback; University of Chicago, 2006 paperback); Also published in China, Japan, Canada, Great Britain (for Commonwealth), Spain (for Latin America), Germany, France, Russia, and Serbia. 2 Mixed Signals: The Prospects for Global Television News, A Twentieth Century Fund Report, (The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995). The Myth of the Middle Class, (W.W. Norton, 1972, hardback; Harper & Row, 1973, paperback); also published in Germany, France, Spain, and Canada. Chapters in Books Where do Galbraith‘s Ideas Come From? John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future of Economics, edited by Blandine Laperche and Dimitri Uzunidis, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). The Affluent Society, Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy Volume 1, edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O‘Connor, (ABC-Clio, 2004).