Changing the way the score is kept is exactly what I was referring to in terms of corporate governance and institutional arrangements and norms of behavior. Thanks for your note.

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Steven Pearlstein is an American columnist. He writes a column on business and the economy that is published twice weekly in The Washington Post. In 2008 Pearlstein received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for 'his insightful columns that explore the nation's complex economic ills with masterful clarity,' at The Washington Post. In the fall of 2011, he became the Robinson Professor of Political and International Affairs at George Mason University. [1][2]

[edit]Life and career

Pearlstein was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, and graduated from Trinity College in 1973. He started out in journalism at the Concord Monitor and the Foster's Daily Democrat, in New Hampshire. He was the founding publisher and editor of The Boston Observer, a monthly journal of liberal opinion, and was a senior editor at Inc. magazine for two years. Pearlstein then joined The Washington Post, where he has served as deputy business editor. Pearlstein has also worked as a television news reporter at Boston’s public television station, WGBH-TV. During the late 1970s, he served as administrative assistant to U.S. Senator John A. Durkin and U.S. Representative Michael J. Harrington and was elected to the position of town moderator in West Newbury, Massachusetts. As of 2008 he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Wendy Gray, and two children.[3][4]

Pearlstein was heavily criticized by Salon.com opinion writer Glenn Greenwald for allegedly changing his position several times on the bank bailouts following the 2008 economic crisis.[5]

In August 2009, Pearlstein wrote a column calling those allegedly spreading lies about the content of President Obama's health care reform 'political terrorists', characterizing them as misleading, disingenous and 'poisoning the political well'.[6]

[edit]References

1. ^ 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners - COMMENTARY, Citation
2. ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (8 April 2008). 'Washington Post Wins Six Pulitzers'. The New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
3. ^ UCLA Anderson School of Management | Gerald Loeb Awards | Steven Pearlstein
4. ^ FDIC 2006 Economic Outlook Roundtable: Scenarios for the Next U.S. Recession
5. ^ Glenn Greenwald summary
6. ^ Pearlstein, Steven (7 August 2009). 'Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform'. Washington Post. Retrieved 7 August 2009.