Amazon.com: What do you like to read?Fingleton: I spend much of my time keeping up with my own field of global economics, which I find completely engrossing. I am an admirer of J.K. Galbraith and recently began rereading his great early work American Capitalism. Among the younger generation of economic commentators, I particularly like the work of James Fallows, Robert Kuttner, Jeff Madrick, Lester Thurow, George Soros, and the British management commentator Robert Heller.
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He was saying something about long term productivity gains in the US would be about 1% annually forever. I think we've topped 3% since then. Well, he was only off by 2%. Close enough for government planners and Keynesians.