Playing the Game: The Economics of the Computer Game Industry  Harold L. Vogel Harold L. Vogel Harold L. Vogel was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for a record ten years by Institutional Investor magazine and was senior entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. for seventeen years. A chartered financial analyst and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Mr. Vogel formerly served on the New York State Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board, and is also the author of Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis and Entertainment Industry Economics, both published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. He frequently writes and speaks on investment topics related to leisure, entertainment and travel, serves as adjunct professor of media economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, and is the author of the novel Short Three Thousand (2000). Mr. Vogel currently works as an independent investment manager and venture capitalist in New York City.