Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a PhD from Harvard in 1973. The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood is his 13th book. The sequel, The Hollywood Economist will be published in January 2010.

The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead

The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead

Some feeder funds, which directed money Bernie Madoff's way, ended up hundreds of millions of dollars in the black. S...

Posted 10:56 PM | Jul 5, 2009
Questions for Obamas Car Czar

Questions for Obama's Car Czar

Why did Quadrangle Group, run by Steven Rattner whom the president has chosen as the auto industry's fix-it man, hav...

Posted 7:22 AM | Apr 21, 2009
Was the AIG Bailout a Conspiracy

Was the AIG Bailout a Conspiracy?

Eliot Spitzer wants to know if the bailout of AIG was an inside deal among Goldman Sachs, the Treasury, and the Fed. ...

Posted 6:01 AM | Apr 2, 2009
The Man Who Gutted the Ivy League

The Man Who Gutted the Ivy League

When Yale's endowment fund was soaring, other Ivies rushed to copy the "alternative investment strategy" of chief in...

Posted 2:45 PM | Mar 28, 2009