Stephen L. Slavin received his BA in economics from Brooklyn College and his MA and PhD in economics from New York University. He has taught at New York Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, St. Francis College (Brooklyn), and in the MBA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, at the New School University in New York City, and at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey.

He has written eight other books: The Einstein Syndrome: Corporate Anti-Semitism in America Today (University Press of America); Jelly Bean Economics: Reaganomics in the Early 1980s (Philosophical Library); Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide, All the Math You’ll Ever Need, Math for Your First- and Second-Grader, Quick Business Math: A Self-Teaching Guide (all four published by John Wiley & Sons); Chances Are: The Only Statistics Book You’ll Ever Need (University Press of America); and Everyday Math in 20 Minutes a Day (LearningExpress). He is the coauthor of four other Wiley books, Practical Algebra, Quick Algebra Review, Precalculus, and Geometry. In addition he is also the coauthor of Basic Mathematics, a text published by Pi r squared Publishers.

Dr. Slavin’s articles have appeared in Studies in Family Planning, Economic Planning, Journal of BioSocial Science, Business and Society Review, Bankers Magazine, Education for Business, Public Management, Better Investing, Northwest Investment Review, U.S.A. Today Magazine, Patterns in Prejudice, Culturefront, and Conservative Review. In addition, he has written more than 500 newspaper commentaries on public policy, demographic economics, politics, urban economics, international trade, investments, and economics fluctuations.