An inspection of capitalisms nice and nasty, undertaken by The Times's longtime economics columnist, finished by his son and three collaborating specialists.

He was previously an economics columnist for and on the editorial board of the New York Times, and was a contributing editor to Newsweek.

David Leonhardt is an economics columnist for The Times and a staff writer for the magazine.

David Leonhardt is an economics columnist for The Times.

Samuel Brittan, the paper's respected economics columnist, is widely acknowledged to be either brilliant or impenetrable, depending on the reader's perspective.

He also worked for many years as an economic journalist, most recently as the global economics columnist of the International Herald Tribune.

Leonard Silk, a former economics columnist for The New York Times, was the chief author of the report.

He is a Bloomberg TV contributing editor and an economics columnist in the Independent.

He has been economics columnist for the New Zealand Listener magazine for more than 34 years, giving him a high public profile.

Q. As an economics columnist, what are your favorite sources for current economic commentary and analysis?