John Cassidy (journalist)
John Joseph Cassidy (born 1963) is a British-American journalist and economic historian. A staff writer at The New Yorker,[1] Cassidy is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, and was previously an editor at The Sunday Times of London and a deputy editor at the New York Post.
Background and education
Cassidy received his undergraduate degree from University College, Oxford, studied at Harvard University on a Harkness Fellowship, and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master's in economics from New York University.[2][3]
Economics writing
Cassidy is the author of the well-received books Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, which examines the dot-com bubble,[4] and How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, which combines a skeptical history of economics with an analysis of the 2000s United States housing bubble and credit bust. He is also well known for his biographical and economic writing on the famous Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes, whom he interprets in a largely positive light.[5]
Cassidy's latest book, Capitalism and Its Critics, A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI was published in 2025. It is described as "A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics." The Financial Times listed it as Most Anticipated Book of 2025.
Bibliography
Books
- Dot.con: the Greatest Story Ever Sold (2002)[a]
- How Markets Fail: the Logic of Economic Clamities (2009)[b]
- Capitalism and Its Critics, A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (2025)
Selected articles
- "The Fountainhead". Profiles. The New Yorker. April 24, 2000.[c]
- "Forces of divergence : is surging inequality endemic to capitalism?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 69–73. March 31, 2014.
- "A world of woes : a global take on a decade of financial crises". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 94 (28): 54–58. September 17, 2018.[d]
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- Notes and full bibliographic citations
- ↑ Cassidy, John (2002). Dot.con : the greatest story ever sold. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060008806.
- ↑ Cassidy, John (2009). How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374173203.
- ↑ Alan Greenspan.
- ↑ Online version is titled "The real cost of the 2008 financial crisis".
References
- ↑ "TRUMP'S INEVITABLE ACQUITTAL AND THE THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY". The New Yorker. February 2020.
- ↑ "Faculty Profile - John Cassidy". Practising Law Institute. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ↑ "Cassidy, John 1963". Encyclopedia.com.
- ↑ Fallon, Ivan (27 November 2009). "How Markets Fail, By John Cassidy". The Independent. Retrieved 6 September 2020. “Cassidy is a former British financial journalist (and a particularly brilliant one, as I can testify from having worked with him) who has made a name for himself in the US. He has a widely admired book, Dot.con, already to his credit.“
- ↑ "The Demand Doctor". The New Yorker. 3 October 2011.
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