Dr. Greenspan's Amazing Invisible Thesis

[Cronopio]

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120675340444773623.html?mod=b_hpp_9_0002_b_this_weeks_magazine_home_right

Auerbach, a veteran Fed basher, portrays Greenspan as a real-life Professor Marvel -- who, through double-talk or "garblement," transformed himself into a mighty economic wizard à la Oz. Auerbach strongly implies that Greenspan's 1977 Ph.D. from New York University was obtained in a few months with little more rigor than a matchbook-cover art degree and that Greenspan has kept his Ph.D. thesis secret in order to protect his vaunted academic reputation.

Although Auerbach's evidence is circumstantial, it certainly is provocative. For years, NYU told the public that, at Greenspan's request, the thesis was locked away from public view in a vault at its Bobst Library. Auerbach himself was told this in January 2004 when he tried to obtain a copy.

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Auerbach, who has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago (Nobel laureate Milton Friedman was his thesis adviser), kept requesting access to the papers until NYU's provost, David McLaughlin, finally admitted in August 2005 that, "I can tell you that it was the practice of the business school, during the 1970s, not to deposit dissertations with the library. Thus, a copy of Greenspan's dissertation is not in the Bobst Library. We suggest that you contact Greenspan directly in order to obtain a copy of his dissertation."

Writes Auerbach: "Evidently, he wanted me to believe that NYU business Ph.D.s just took their dissertations home and put them in a drawer."

[angstlessk]

1. So at NYU you can screw a professor (re the prostitute threads of late) and get a PHD

cause no one will ever see your disertation??? WOW, way cool! :banghead:

[rwenos]

2. Were It Ever Thus

Academic Aphrodite. A rare but dangerous type, populating the halls of fine universities, surfing graduate programs, searching for Dr. Right. I knew one in undergrad at Berkeley, who got into the New School for an M.A. on her back, then Yale Law School. Never passed a bar exam or practiced a lick, of course. Then Stanford, I heard.

As a23 year old reasonably-athletic M.A. student and teaching assistant, I found a certain type of female student who went after ME. Not exactly the stereotype of the oppressor professor. The quid pro quo being offered was quite clear.

[angstlessk]

3. Looking for Daddy Warbucks? I reckon the higher the degree the more

you can demand in the income department when perusing a potential mate? Not to mention learning how to create your own pre-nupt?

[JDPriestly]

4. This information is extremely important.

It explains a lot about Greenspan. He is a total phony. Anyone who has an academic background will be shocked by this article.

Greenspan, writes Auerbach, obtained his NYU doctorate in a few months, 27 years after earning a master's there. He had just completed a stint as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for both presidents Nixon and Ford, when inflation went wild. His performance hardly suggested that he'd one day become a legendary Fed chairman.

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Auerbach contends in his book that Greenspan's invisible Ph.D. thesis is symbolic of a career marked by prevarication, cover-ups and a general aversion to making the Fed more publicly accountable. He calls on Congress to "bring the Fed into the Democracy" because "unelected Fed decision makers should not decide what the public should know about how they are running the central bank."

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120675340444773623.html?mod=b_hpp_9_0002_b_this_weeks_magazine_home_right

Wow! 27 years between his masters and the completion of his Ph.D. I didn't know you could hang on that long. I suppose you can. But who would want to? Sounds like he was kind of give his Ph.D. as a formality, maybe as a political favor. Maybe that he why he does not make his dissertation readily available. That explains a lot.

He will probably come up with some impressive document real quick. No one will ever know whether it is really his dissertation.

[rwenos]

5. Ph.D.-Level Plagiarism

The joke when I was in an M.A. program was that there was more plagiarism at the Ph.D. level than at ANY OTHER. Find a dissertation in a European university library. Translate or have it translated for you by that pretty blonde you met in the sidewalk cafe. Then turn it in, get your three committee signatures, pick up your Ph.D.

It's an old game. This doesn't look too good for MISTER Greenspan, does it?

[Baby Snooks]

6. No doubt the thesis was on "voodoo economics"

Reality is Alan Greenspan has served the oligarchists well and the reality is in oligarchy, there can be only two classes which means you have to get rid of the middle class or at least keep it "contained" as it is in Mexico - his policies through four administrations have resulted in ridding this country of the middle class. The bottom half of the middle class is now becoming "have-nots" while the top half of the middle class is now becoming "haves" and so in the end, well, we have oligarchy instead of democracy.

And of course who did Alan Greenspan endorse? Hillary Clinton. Have to maintain the oligarchy. Voodoo economics works best with a Clinton apparently.