About Leonard Silk
Lived 1918 – 1995 (aged 76–77). Leonard Silk was an American economist and journalist.
Leonard Solomon Silk (May 15, 1918 – February 10, 1995) 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.
Silk was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Montclair, New Jersey. Economics in the Real World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
As editor Capitalism, the Moving Target. New York: Praeger, 1974. People: From Impoverishment to Empowerment, 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
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American writer
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Leonard Silk was born in 1918 in Philadelphia.
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Leonard Silk died on 10 February 1995.
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Leonard Silk was an economist and journalist.
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