John Ballantine
John Ballantine is an emeritus professor at Brandeis International Business School. He is now beginning his re-education returning to books and poems he could not possibly understand -- Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy, Ulysses, much of Virginia Woolfe, and most of Faulkner, not to mention the Becket novels and Nabokov's Ada. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University, then earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago and NYU Stern, respectively. His economic commentary has appeared in Salon, The Boston Globe, and The Conversation, and other more academic publications.