Category: Business

June 3, 2014

Interview with Jessica Lautin, Co-Author of Capital of Capital

“Banks are not a monolith; and their functions have been extraordinarily diverse—worthy of both ire and praise.”—Jessica Lautin The following is an interview with Jessica Lautin, co-author of Capital of Capital: Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012...

May 30, 2014

Kenneth Arrow's Commentary on Creating a Learning Society

Read Kenneth J. Arrow’s Commentary on CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald!

May 29, 2014

Joseph Stiglitz on the Kenneth Arrow Lecture Series

Read Joseph Stiglitz’s Preface to CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY.

May 28, 2014

Creating a Learning Society — the Introduction

Read the introduction to CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald.

May 27, 2014

The Learning Revolution, by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald

Read “The Learning Revolution,” an excerpt from Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald’s CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY.

May 1, 2014

Dean Starkman on Financial Journalism and the Disappearance of Investigative Reporting

Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, was recently interviewed on All Things Considered on changing trends in news and what it might mean for the future of journalism....

April 10, 2014

Video: Interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. The interview is with Glyn Holton, who writes the following: Today, I interview Michael Yogg, author of the...

February 14, 2014

Moralism and the Facts — The Pillars of Paul Cabot's Investment Strategy

We conclude our week-long feature on Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, with an excerpt from the epilogue. In these excerpts, Yogg considers some of the core values that shaped Cabot’s investment strategy and...

February 13, 2014

Paul Cabot's Jeremiad

In the following passage from Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, Michael Yogg examines Paul Cabot’s ideas about reform for the financial industry and the characteristics of a good investment manager. He also looks...

February 12, 2014

Michael Yogg — Investment Profession Should Learn from Industry Pioneer who Spoke Out

“The investment profession must do a better job of policing its own or face the loss of public trust and ever more draconian regulation.”—Michael Yogg The following post is by Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life...

February 11, 2014

Interview with Michael Yogg, author of "Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot"

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. Find out how to win a FREE copy of Passion for Reality! Question: Why did you chose to...

January 24, 2014

Dean Starkman Debates Whether the Business Press Failed the Public Trust

Recently, Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism...