Ben Stein (Los Angeles, CA) is a respected economistwho is known to many as a movie and television personality, but has worked morein personal and corporate finance than anywhere else. He has written aboutfinance for Barron's, TheWall Street Journal, The New YorkTimes, and Fortune; was one of the chief busters of the junk-bondfrauds of the 1980s; has been a longtime critic of corporate executives'self-dealing; and has cowritten eight finance books. Stein travels the country speaking about finance in both seriousand humorous ways, and is a regular contributor to CBS's Sunday Morning, CNN,and Fox News. He was the 2009 winner of the Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellencein Financial Journalism.
In The Capitalist Code, the latest in a series of books aimed at younger readers with whom he has established a unique rapport, his intention is to talk about basic investing in a down-to-earth and commonsensical way, the prose always direct and straightforward, never abstract or complex. -THE WASHINGTON TIMES