PREFACE
WHY WOULD ANYONE want to write a gloomy book about the economy? And who would want to read it?
As a business professor who sees a lot of examples, I can attest that the world does not need another dull and jargon-filled book about business. But my motivation for writing this book was more personal. I wanted to give some advice to kids heading off into the world, including my own. Yet I was stumped.
When I headed to college, the options were clear. If you studied something practical, like engineering or business, you could get a corporate job when you finished school. If you studied something frivolous like philosophy, as I did, you could go to law school. And if you ran out of money and dropped out, there was always the chance of getting ...
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