The following are some illustrations from a Business Week publication, Economic Commentary: Reflections and Critiques from the pages of Business Week, by Leonard S. Silk, June 1, 1966, illustrations by Joseph Papin.
From the New York Times Obituary: “Leonard Silk Dies at 76; Times Columnist Helped the Public to Understand Economics.” By Louis Uchitelle, February 12, 1995:
“Leonard S. Silk, a columnist and editorial writer for The New York Times and for Business Week … was a rarity in journalism: a reporter with a Ph.D. in economics, who taught the subject at a college level and worked in government before becoming a full-time journalist. He started at Business Week in 1954 and moved to The Times in 1970. Departing from the dense coverage of markets and statistics that characterized economic reporting in the 1950’s, he found ways to describe, in simple prose, the economic forces shaping his readers’ lives.”
Like all the drawings in this post, the Papin drawing above was in the 1966 Economic Commentary: Reflections and Critiques from the pages of Business Week. The Business Week article where it first appears was in the May 14, 1966 edition:
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