Category: Economics

August 29, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 2)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the second half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 28, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 1)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the first half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 27, 2013

Excerpt: Preface from The Ethical Economy

Read the preface from The Ethical Economy, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen.

August 23, 2013

On Being a Sports Statistician: more interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, the last day of our book giveaway, we have an excerpt from...

August 22, 2013

Interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, we have a couple of great interviews with Ben Alamar, one with...

August 21, 2013

Benjamin Alamar: "Analytics Is Not a Strategy"

Read “Analytics Is Not a Strategy,” By Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics.

August 20, 2013

An Introduction to Sports Analytics – Benjamin C. Alamar

Read the introduction to Benjamin Alamar’s Sports Analytics!

June 20, 2013

An interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Read an interview with Michael M. Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd, authors of The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving.

June 14, 2013

"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave," by Mac McClelland — Best Busines Writing 2013

In “I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave,” originally published in Mother Jones and included in The Best Business Writing 2013, Mac McClelland describes her experiences working at a warehouse for an Internet company. She describes conditions in which workers are...

June 13, 2013

The Trouble is the Banks — Best Business Writing 2013

“I always believed getting an education was the only way to succeed in life. Now I regret it every single day.”—Donna DeNaro, from The Trouble is the Banks excerpted in The Best Business Writing 2013 The Trouble is the Banks...

June 12, 2013

The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving and Adventures in Quantitative Philanthropy

This week two different stories looked at the ideas at the center of The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving , by Michael Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd. In his post, Adventures with quantitative philanthropy, Felix Salmon, examines the Robin...

June 11, 2013

How Companies Learn Your Secrets from The Best Business Writing 2013

“There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subcon­scious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive render­ing of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how...