Category: Economics

October 12, 2011

"The Most Important Thing," by Howard Marks Reviewed in Barron's

Our best-selling title The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, by Howard Marks was recently reviewed by Martin Fridson in Barron’s (scroll down to the fourth review). Fridson praises Marks for offering analysis that is at once...

August 17, 2011

Paul R. Pillar on the true costs of the Iraq war

In a post today at The National Interest Paul R. Pillar, author of the new book Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, discusses the true cost of the Iraq war for the United States. In his...

July 20, 2011

Keith Roberts Offers an Investment Strategy Based on Ancient History

What had a greater impact on business, the Iron Age or the invention of coinage? What might these developments tell us about more recent historical changes such as globalization or the computer revolution? These are the issues that Keith Roberts,...

May 16, 2011

Howard Marks Discusses The Most Important Thing on DealBook

Howard Marks was recently interviewed on the New York Times‘s blog DealBook to discuss his new book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. Marks describes how the book built upon the letter he has been writing...

March 31, 2011

Money never sleeps… — A Post by Grzegorz Kolodko

The following is a guest post by Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World. He blogs at www.volatileworld.net You can also read a recent interview with Kolodko in the Warsaw Business...

March 18, 2011

William Duggan on a Marshall Plan for the Middle East

Earlier this month, William Duggan co-author with R. Glenn Hubbard of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, appeared on Bloomberg News to talk about alternatives to existing financial aid models for Middle East countries:

March 3, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko: New Pragmatism versus Failing Neoliberalism

“The source of the current global economic crisis lies in the failure of America’s neoliberal capitalism.”—Grzegorz W. Kolodko The following essay is from Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World....

March 1, 2011

Ed Hess on the Business Revolution That's Destroying the American Dream

“Over the last 25 years American capitalism has become financialism, which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed.”–Ed Hess, Forbes The capitalism envisaged by Adam Smith has been replaced by what Ed Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by...

February 8, 2011

Interview with Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

The following is a Q&A between Grzegorz W. Kolodko, author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World and William R. Brand, the book’s translator. William Brand: This is an exceptionally wide-ranging book that looks far...

February 2, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko on Tour for Truth, Errors, and Lies

             Tonight Grzegorz W. Kolodko will be discussing his new book Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Tonight’s event is part of speaking tour Kolodko will...

December 14, 2010

Slavery, the bottom line: An interview with Siddharth Kara

In an interview with The Boston Globe, Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, explains why understanding sex trafficking as an economic issue is crucial to its eradication. Whereas a leading industry like Google has...

November 11, 2010

Siddharth Kara Wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize

We were very excited to learn that Siddharth Kara won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. The prize goes to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition....