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Andy Kessler

Disciplines:
technology
economics
writing
finance/wall street

Summary

American technology investor and writer — former hedge fund manager — Wall Street Journal columnist — author of Wall Street Meat, Running Money, and Eat People — who writes about technology and economic disruption for general audiences.

Core Contribution

Creates the parasites vs. producers economic framework — Kessler's Eat People argument (that economic progress comes from 'eaters' who automate jobs and 'feeders' who create dependency, and that the distinction is the key to understanding economic growth) is the most interesting libertarian-tech investment framework.

Notable Works & Achievements

Wall Street Meat

Running Money

How We Got Here

Eat People

Historical Influences

Joseph Schumpeter Technology investment tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Horseheads, New YorkCornell Morgan Stanley Hedge fund career

Contemporaries & Peers

Marc Andreessen Peter Thiel

Minds Influenced

Technology investment writing

Intellectual Posterity

Wall Street Meat Eat People

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