George Goodman

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George Goodman (1930 - ), born in St. Louis is an American author and broadcast economics commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which intentionally evokes the 18th century economist of the same name). He also writes fiction under the name "George Goodman".

Goodman was educated at Harvard, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Writing as the contemporary Adam Smith, Goodman pioneered a style of financial writing that made the language and concepts of Wall Street accessible to any investor. His first book, The Money Game, was a #1 best seller for over a year and changed the style of financial writing from that point forward. Of his many books Supermoney. Paper Money, Powers of Mind, and The Roaring Eighties are among the best known. During a stint in Hollywood, he wrote screen plays including one from his book The Wheeler Dealers – staring James Garner and Lee Remick.

He was a member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times, an editor of Esquire Magazine and was a founding member of New York Magazine where he nurtured such writers as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin and Gloria Steinem.

In 1984, Goodman came to television as the anchor and editor-in-chief of Adam Smith's Money World. Running on Public Broadcasting in the US, it became the most honored program in its field, winning eight Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards, as well as the Overseas Press Club Award. As Adam Smith, George Goodman also created and anchored a follow-up show, Adam Smith's Money Game that aired in over forty countries and was the first American business news show broadcast in the Soviet Union.

Beginning in 2000 Goodman traveled the globe each year doing specials on countries and regions such as China, Russia, the Pacific Rim, Latin America, India, Israel and interviewing leaders ranging from Warren Buffett to Mikhail Gorbachev.