Charles R. Morris

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Charles R. Morris
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Born
Charles Richard Morris

(1939-10-23)October 23, 1939
Oakland, California, U.S.
DiedDecember 13, 2021(2021-12-13) (aged 82)
Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • journalist
  • author
SpouseBeverly Gilligan
Children3

Charles Richard Morris (October 23, 1939 – December 13, 2021) was an American lawyer, banker, and author. He wrote fifteen books, and was a regular contributor to the

The Atlantic Monthly
.

Personal life

Morris was born in Oakland, California. His father Charles B. Morris worked as a technician in an ink factory, and his mother Mildred was a housewife. Morris attended the Mother of the Savior Seminary in Blackwood, New Jersey,[1] and completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963.[2]

Morris married Beverly Gilligan Morris and they had three children.[1][3]

Career

After graduation, Morris decided to work for the

state of Washington[1] as secretary of social health services. Morris worked in the government for 12 years in total.[2]

After leaving the government, Morris worked as a vice president for international finance at

financial technology consulting firm.[4]

Morris wrote Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Western Technology (1993) in collaboration with computer consultant

Charles H. Ferguson.[5] When Ferguson cofounded the financial software startup company CapitalThinking Inc. in 1999,[4] Morris soon became vice president for Finance and Administration.[6] Around August 2000, Morris was named Chief Operating Officer.[7] By November 2001, he also served as President of the company.[4] Morris remained with the company until 2004; its business allowed him to see the rise of credit derivative trading, leading to his Meltdown books.[2]

Death

Morris died from complications of dementia in Hampton, New Hampshire, on December 13, 2021, at age 82, the same day as one of his siblings.[1]

Awards

Morris, Charles R. (2008). The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash. PublicAffairs.

ISBN 978-1-58648-563-4.[8]

Books

  • A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939 (2017)[9]
  • Comeback: America's New Economic Boom (2013)[10][11]
  • The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution (2012)[12]
  • The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets (2009)[13]
  • The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008);[14][8] updated paperback released as The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008)[15]
  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)[16]
  • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (2005)[17]
  • Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen (1999)[18]
  • American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (1997)[3]
  • The AARP: America's Most Powerful Lobby and the Clash of Generations (1996)[19]
  • Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Western Technology (1993, with
    Charles H. Ferguson)[20][5]
  • The Coming Global Boom (1990)[21]
  • Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945–1987 (1988)[22]
  • A Time of Passion: America, 1960–1980 (1985)[23]
  • The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment (1981)[24]

Film

Morris appears in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary film Inside Job.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Roberts, Sam (December 13, 2021). "Charles R. Morris, Iconoclastic Author on Economics, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Hill, Miriam (October 17, 2011). "No Meltdowns for Morris as a Writer or Investor". Penn Law Journal. 46 (2): 41–2.
  3. ^
    ISBN 9780307797919
    .
  4. ^ a b c "About Us". CapitalThinking. Archived from the original on November 1, 2001.
  5. ^ a b COMPUTER WARS | Kirkus Reviews. 1992.
  6. ^ "About Us". CapitalThinking. Archived from the original on April 7, 2000.
  7. ^ "About Us – The people". CapitalThinking. Archived from the original on August 19, 2000.
  8. ^ a b "Loeb Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 29, 2009. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  9. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  10. OCLC 823044786.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  11. ^ COMEBACK | Kirkus Reviews. 2013.
  12. ISSN 0031-9228
    .
  13. ^ "The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker and the Maelstrom of Markets". The Barnes & Noble Review. August 5, 2009. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  14. Business Week. April 17, 2009. Archived from the original
    on January 5, 2010. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
  15. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael (October 9, 2008). "The 2 Trillion Dollar Meltdown Man". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  16. ^ Chen, Pauline W. (October 28, 2007). "Heart and Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  17. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  18. ^ Samuelson, Robert J. (November 14, 1999). "Is the Party Over?". archive.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  19. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  20. OCLC 29611938
    .
  21. OCLC 20992990
    .
  22. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., 1945–1987 by Charles R. Morris, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-06-039082-2". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  23. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  24. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 24, 1980). "Books of The Times". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
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