Welcome to David Moss

This week, Credit Slips is honored to welcome David Moss, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Moss first came to the attention of many bankruptcy law scholars when he published "The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both?,"  76 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 73 (1999) with Gibbs A. Johnson. The article won the Editor's Prize for best article in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal that year, and it is well worth reading for anyone interested in the increase in consumer bankruptcy filings and consumer debt.

It is the fate of most any scholar who has an article that crosses disciplines that the "other" discipline will come to know you by the one interdisciplinary article. This is unfair because it does not recognize the scholar's substantial body of work, all of which is certainly the case with Professor Moss. He is an important voice on the issue of the government's approach to private sector risk. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he has published two books and has a third on the way. His 2002 book, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager is a historical exploration of the government's role as the insurer of last resort, tying together policy issues as seemingly disparate as airline bailouts and consumer protection laws. This topic includes bankruptcy law as well. Professor Moss has a new book forthcoming from the Harvard Business School Press, A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know. Perhaps Professor Moss can give us a few sentences on this new book and whether it will be useful to the Credit Slips audience.