Meet Michael W. Klein | Something for Nothing

Start: 01/08/2012 4:00 pm

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
4pm | Meet Michael W. Klein | Something for Nothing

Michael W. Klein

Tufts University Economics Professor Michael W. Klein visits with his debut novel, Something for Nothing. David Fox is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. He thinks he is getting the hang of teaching, but his research is stagnant, to put it kindly, and his search for a tenure-track job looms dauntingly. So when a right-wing think tank called the Center to Research Opportunities for a Spiritual Society (CROSS) 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. But David soon faces a personal dilemma when his prized results are cast into doubt.

ABOUT MICHAEL W. KLEIN
Michael W. Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He served as Chief Economist in the Office of International Finance at the US Treasury from June 2010 to December 2011. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published four books and over two dozen articles. His most recent economics book is Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era (2009). Something for Nothing is his most recent (and, so far, only) published novel.