Economic Security

Irv Leveson brings genuine credentials — a Columbia Ph.D. and a career in economic policy analysis — to a compact 148-page guide aimed at helping ordinary adults protect their financial futures in volatile times. Savings, investment, taxes, borrowing, retirement, and income stability are all addressed at a practical level, and he also looks at what governments and businesses can do structurally. The honest caveats matter here: this was published in 2011 via iUniverse, a self-publishing platform, and both the economic context and some of the specific advice have been significantly reshaped by the decade and a half since — low-interest environments, a pandemic, inflation cycles. Leveson's credentials are real, but readers should treat this as background thinking rather than current financial guidance.