Born: 1943
Birthplace: Denver, CO

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Foundation on Economic Trends

Father: Milton Rifkin (plastics manufacturer)
Mother: Vivette Ravel Rifkin (founder, Educational Tape Recording for the Blind)
Wife: (wife #1, div.)
Wife: Carol Grunewald (wife #2, m. 13-May-1990)

    University: BA Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1967)
    University: MA International Affairs, Tufts University (1968)

    Foundation on Economic Trends President
    Greenhouse Crisis Foundation President
    Beyond Beef Coalition President
    International Forum on Globalization Associate

Author of books:
The North Will Rise Again: Pensions, Politics and Power in the 1980s (1978, nonfiction, with Randy Barber)
Algeny (1983, nonfiction)
Declaration of a Heretic (1985, nonfiction)
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (1992, nonfiction)
The Biotech Century (1998, nonfiction)
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All Life is a Paid-For Experience (2000, nonfiction)

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