Leonard Silk
Leonard Solomon Silk was an American economist, author, and journalist. Silk's diverse areas of interest included global economics, unemployment, banking, and inflation. Silk wrote for Business Week between 1954 and 1969. He also wrote for the New [York Times] between 1970 and 1993, first writing editorials, then beginning in 1976, his own column.
Silk was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Montclair, New Jersey.
Publications
As author- New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
- New York: Praeger, 1972.
- New York: Avon Books, 1974.
- , with David Vogel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.
- Simon and Schuster, 1978. in 1986.
- , with Rawleigh Warner Jr. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1979.
- , with Mark Silk. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
- Economics in the Real World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
- New York: Praeger, 1974.
- , with Üner Kirdar. New [York University Press], 1995.
Awards
- 1961 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for "The United States Invents a New Way to Grow"
- 1977 Gerald Loeb Memorial Award
- 1995 Gerald Loeb [Lifetime Achievement Award winners|Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award]