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...droll, mannered novels are funny on purpose. In his first, The McLandress Dimension (1963), the Harvard professor introduced a concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich. He thus affronts the self-satisfied Cambridge community, where "no one has ever been known to repeat what...
...release February 25, Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, revolves around the life of Montgomery Marvin, a fictional junior professor of economics at Harvard. Marvin invents the Index of Irrational Expectations (IRAT), an economic formula that allows him to make a fortune...
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