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The MIT Press
September 2011
On Sale: September 2, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0262015757
EAN: 9780262015752
Kindle: B005M37WQA
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Fiction
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant
Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is
having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a
small college in a small town miles from everything except
Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks
he is getting the hang of teaching, but a smart and
beautiful young woman in his Economics of Social Issues
class is distractingly flirtatious. His research is
stagnant, to put it kindly. His search for a tenure-track
job looms dauntingly. (The previous visiting assistant
professor of economics is now working in a bookstore.) So
when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research
Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS)--affiliated
with the Salvation Academy for Value Economics (SAVE)--wants
to publish (and publicize) a paper he wrote as a graduate
student showing the benefits of high school abstinence
programs, fetchingly retitled "Something for Nothing," he
ignores his misgivings and accepts happily. After all,
publication is "the coin of the realm," as a senior
colleague puts it.But David faces a personal dilemma when
his prized results are cast into doubt. The school year is
filled with other challenges as well, including faculty
politics, a romance with a Knittersville native, running the
annual interview gauntlet, and delivering the culminating
"job talk" lecture under trying circumstances. David's
adventures offer an instructive fictional guide for the
young economist and an entertaining and comic tale for
everyone interested in questions of balancing career and
life, success and integrity, and loyalty and desire.
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