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haroldchanner March 09, 2009

Martin Mayer, unemployed since 1954,

is the author of 34 books, of which four Madison Avenue, USA;

The Schools;

The Lawyers and The Bankers

were major bestsellers.

The Lawyers for many years

held the record as the book most frequently stolen

from the Mid-Manhattan Library,

a reflection,

said a librarian,

on the kind of kid who goes to law school these days.

From 1952 to 1975

Mr. Mayer wrote a monthly column

on serious music for Esquire;

from 1986 to 1989

he wrote a twice-monthly column for American Banker
about banking;

and from 1990 to 1992

he wrote a monthly column for American Film

about television.

In the 1960s

he chaired a New York City local school board

and served on the Presidents Panel

on Educational Research and

Development for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

In the early 1980s

he was a Commissioner
on President Reagans National Commission on Housing.


At one time or another,

Martin Mayer has been a consultant to

the American Council of Learned Societies,

the Carnegie Corporation,

the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation,

the Kettering Foundation,

and the Twentieth Century Fund.


He wrote the centennial history of the Metropolitan Opera,

and from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s


he was the New York and Washington critic

for Opera Magazine in Britain.

Trained as an economist

(his tutor at Harvard was Wassily Leontief;

his course

in European central banking

was taught by Joseph Schumpeter),

Martin Mayer has for the last 25 years written most often about financial subjects;

since 1993

he had been a Guest Scholar (now non-resident)

at The Brookings Institution.

In the last four years,

twelve of his books,

several of them

more than forty years old,


have been translated into Chinese and

published in China and

the Chinese have paid royalties.

His book on The Fed

was recently published in Korean and in Turkish.

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9 months ago Thanks for posting. Have just read 'Madison Avenue' , 1958, and the final chapter - Mayer's 'premise' of advertising - remains worth twenty minutes of any practicioner's time today.

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1 year ago

i born that day!!!!!!!!!!!