Maxton

Graeme Maxton is an economist, and a host of CNBC's Squawk Box.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

While calmly decrying our short-sightedness and avarice, Maxton also discourses on the fact that resources are improperly valued, as their price tags include neither the environmental cost of manufacture nor the cost of developing new technologies once supplies of oil, etc., run out.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

Divided into four parts, with chapters and subsections so numerous that each of Maxton's specific arguments is only a few, very accessible pages long, the book darts back and forth between broad arguments and specific examples.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

In his book, Maxton steadily builds his thesis--that we have left the age of reason and entered an age of non-enlightened greed and self-interest--by drawing on examples from philosophy, history, politics, economics, and environmental study.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

Pervading Maxton's view are his notions of personal psychology and group behavior, and, depending upon your interpretation, spirituality as well.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

It pulls no punches in identifying precisely how in Maxton's view our wrong-headed theories and unbridled appetites have gotten us into the deep trouble.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

Indeed the range of ideas--and Maxton's surprising, sometimes iconoclastic take on them--makes a brief review challenging.

Arthur Rosenfeld: The End of Progress -- A Book Review Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

His conservatism like Brown's Maxton honed principles has been steadily cloned and infested with post-modernist/'politically correct' know nothingness.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

In case you are interested, our agent is Maxton Sparks in Australia, and they do the heavy lifting in dealing with the media around the world that want our product.

If We Didn't Build it, They Wouldn't Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered 2009

Such was the case for me with a young man from Maxton, North Carolina, named Rufus Leach.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009