Joseph borkin biography

Signed with monogram and dated '1967' (lower left), unframed

THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF JOSEPH BORKIN (1911-1979)

Joseph Borkin was an economist, legal scholar, educator and a fine writer. He was the author of "Impeachment" in the Encyclopedia of Britannica, author of articles on antitrust laws in the Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Revie and a contributor to the Twentieth Century Funds "The Security Markets and Stock Market Control".

In addition, he taught courses on global economics and law at numerous universities.

Joseph Borkin served as chief economic advisor and attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice during the presidency of Franklin D.

Roosevelt. As early as 1938, he co-authored a book on the yet unborn art of television titled, Television: The Struggle for Power that predicted, among other things, pay per view cable television and the Internet. The New York Times wrote that it was "required reading for any course devoted to the so