About the Author

Maggie Mahar is the author of Bull! A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004, a book Paul Krugman of the New York Times said makes a devastating case against the contention that the market is almost perfectly efficient. In his 2003 annual report, Warren Buffett recommended Bull! to Berkshire Hathaway's investors. Before becoming a financial journalist in 1982, when she began to write for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Barron's, Mahar was an English professor at Yale University. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

"Mahar illuminates the profit motive behind medicine . . . in this savvy, detail-rich book."--Bloomberg.com