The book by John Kenneth Galbraith "A Professor of Economics at Harvard" is simultaneously a fascinating story about politics, economics, and academic ethics, as well as an enjoyable satire. The central character, Montgomery Marvin, a professor of economics at Harvard, creates a predictive model for stock movements, which enables him to expose hidden mechanisms in politics, economics, universities, and journalism. 

He attempts to demonstrate the relentless madness of people motivated by greedy profit. Marvin causes mass stock market hysteria that leads investors to believe that the upward trend of stocks is a one-way street. The book is a provocative satire, hailed by the New York Times as "the wisest and most intelligent" novel by John Kenneth Galbraith.