Category: Economics

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....

October 28, 2010

Stalking the Black Swan by Kenneth Posner Wins at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Congratulations to Kenneth Posner’s whose Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility won the prize for the best foreign book in business at the Sharjah International Book Fair. For more on the book...

October 1, 2010

The Historical Appeal of Austerity — A Post by Steven Bryan

The following is a post by Steven Bryan, author of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire. Read Bryan’s earlier post, How Unusual Is China’s Currency Policy? On...

August 27, 2010

India's Forced Labor — Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, continues his extraordinary series on CNN.com with a look at forced labor in India. Kara has been traveling in South Asia researching bonded labor and in his latest...

July 20, 2010

Siddharth Kara on the Trail of Human Trafficking

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (now available in paper), has begun a weekly column for CNN.com that will document his trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking, and child...

June 28, 2010

Siddharth Kara's "Sex Trafficking" now available in paperback

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara is now available in paperback. The book has been one of our most critically acclaimed and bestselling titles over the last couple of years. More important, the book and...

June 24, 2010

Kenneth Posner — How Retail Investors Can Win in a Pond of Black Swans

So popular was Kenneth Posner’s interview with The Wall Street Cheat Street that they asked him back again. In the interview Kenneth Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility discusses:...

June 3, 2010

Kenneth Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans

Unpredictable events or “Black Swans,” a term popularized by Nassim Taleb, are a facet of the twenty-first century economy and we should learn how to live with it rather than wish them away. In a recent essay for the Huffington...

May 26, 2010

Kenneth Posner on how to stop the next banking crisis

In an op-ed written for Fortune, Kenneth Posner, author of the recently published Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, provides a solution for stopping the next banking crisis. In light of the...

May 4, 2010

Edward Hess on false gods and Wall Street's Future

“Bankers are not theologians (and neither, it should be said, are business professors), but as new revelations continue to be made about the devastating effects of dubious instruments concocted by financial alchemists, the fair question that needs to be asked...

April 23, 2010

Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess on Goldman Sachs and Financial Reform

In separate articles, Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess, two authors recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing, applied the arguments of their books to some of the most pressing and controversial issues in finance and business. First up is Kenneth...

April 13, 2010

Ken Posner on Fannie and Freddie

Ken Posner, author of of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, recently appeared on Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker to discuss among other things about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to...