Former merchant mariner and bus driver and now an economics professor, Burton Abrams is a Chicagoan by birth and a Minnesotan by choice. He is a devoted fisherman, hunter and lover of sunsets. He is the award-winning author of "Return to Animal Farm" and "The Terrible Ten: A Century of Economic Folly", which received both a silver Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) and an Eric Hoffer Award honorable mention in 2014.