About the Author

James Kwak is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches business law and corporate finance. He co-authored 13 Bankers, a New York Times bestseller chronicling the rise of the financial sector and the causes of the recent financial crisis, and White House Burning, a Wall Street Journal business bestseller analyzing government deficits and the national debt. His academic writing spans a wide range of fields including retirement savings, social insurance, regulatory capture, corporate law, and the taxation of capital income.

James is the co-author of The Baseline Scenario, a leading economics and public policy blog. His articles have appeared in many publications, including Democracy, The American Prospect, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, and on the web sites of The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, NPR, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times.

James is the vice chair of the board of directors of the Southern Center for Human Rights. He has an A.B. in social studies from Harvard, a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. Before going to law school, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and in the software industry at Ariba and Guidewire Software.