About The Author
Daniel Akst is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Slate and other leading publications. His most recent book is We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess (2011).
Akst has worked on staff as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he now writes the weekend news quiz; as a reporter, columnist and editor at the Los Angeles Times; and as a columnist and editorial writer at Newsday. For more than eight years, he wrote a column for the Sunday business section of the New York Times. And for roughly a decade, he was a contributing editor at the Wilson Quarterly, where he wrote about the historical impact of plummeting food prices, the reasons looks matter, our changing attitudes about thrift, and the problem of self-control.
Akst has worked on staff as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he now writes the weekend news quiz; as a reporter, columnist and editor at the Los Angeles Times; and as a columnist and editorial writer at Newsday. For more than eight years, he wrote a column for the Sunday business section of the New York Times. And for roughly a decade, he was a contributing editor at the Wilson Quarterly, where he wrote about the historical impact of plummeting food prices, the reasons looks matter, our changing attitudes about thrift, and the problem of self-control.
