Norton Garfinkle was born on February 26,1931 and is an American economist, writer, and businessman.
13 Facts About Norton Garfinkle
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Norton Garfinkle is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University.
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Norton Garfinkle taught economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he was an editor the Journal of Economic History.
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Norton Garfinkle is chairman of Princeton Scientific Capital Management, a financial investment company.
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Norton Garfinkle is chairman of Princeton SciTech, an investment company that specializes in building new internet-based technology companies.
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Norton Garfinkle created RADAR, the first national radio ratings service.
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Norton Garfinkle served as chairman of Electronic Retailing Systems International which provided technology solutions to supermarket chains including the widely used self checkout supermarket systems.
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Norton Garfinkle founded Advanced Retail Marketing Corporation, an in-store marketing company, which was sold to News Corporation in 1996.
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Norton Garfinkle served as chairman and CEO of the company until 1988 when the company was sold to Pfizer.
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Norton Garfinkle is Chairman of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy".
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Norton Garfinkle is a board member and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Public Agenda, a non-partisan, non-profit, public opinion research organization founded by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Social Scientist, Daniel Yankelovich.
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Norton Garfinkle has served as chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, chairman of the National Hospice Foundation, Chairman of the Lamaze Institute for Family Education, chairman of the New York Landmarks Conservancy and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Harlem School of Arts.
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On February 3,2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of US Middle Class" discussing his book The American Dream vs The Gospel of Wealth.