Category: Business

October 10, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Sex Trade in Nepal

For his most recent book, Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara is based on his extensive travels to the region. In a running series on CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery, Kara discussed what...

October 9, 2012

Book Giveaway: "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia," by Siddharth Kara

“Siddharth Kara’s exploration of bonded labor in South Asia is perhaps the most ambitious and reasoned treatment of this form of slavery in the modern era…. This is a must read for all that want to better understand the trajectory...

August 9, 2012

800CEOREAD Reviews Best Business Writing 2012

Earlier this summer the popular website 800CEOREAD reviewed The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The review praises the book for collecting the most compelling and important writing of the...

June 27, 2012

Geoffrey Heal: Planetary Economics

Geoffrey Heal, in his keynote address to the Rio+20 conference, discusses sustainability and how economics can help us get there.

June 22, 2012

Paul Courant Offers a Economist's View of the Google Book Settlement

We conclude our week-long focus on The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, edited by Joseph Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin with an essay Paul N. Courant, an economist and dean of libraries at the University...

June 21, 2012

A View on the Failures of New Classical Economics from The Economists' Voice 2.0

After the financial crisis of 2008, economists debated the applicability of New Classical Economics. Did this macroeconomic theory with its faith in markets fail to predict or understand looming economic problems? Paul Krugman criticized New Classical Economics while University of...

June 20, 2012

Richard Posner on Financial Regulatory Reform and the Politics of Denial

Richard Posner’s essay “Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial,” included in The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, explores the question of whether, as is the case, those officials complicit...

June 19, 2012

Henry J. Aaron on Health Care Reform

In the following excerpt from Henry J. Aaron’s “Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment,” which appears in The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, Aaron examines some of the challenges confronting the implementation...

June 15, 2012

The Editors of Best Business Writing on the Business Press and the Public Trust

Earlier this year, the Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman and Felix Salmon, two of the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012....

June 14, 2012

The Best Business Writing 2012 Sheds a Light on Patent Trolling

One of the more fascinating pieces in The Best Business Writing 2012 is When Patents Attack!, a story that was broadcast on NPR’s beloved “This American Life”. In the radio piece, Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell investigate how patent lawyers...

June 13, 2012

The Audit on Bad Business Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Audit, which features all the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012, not only celebrates excellence in business journalism but also criticizes its failures. One fault, detailed in a 2009 piece by Dean Starkman , is...

June 12, 2012

Dean Starkman on the Importance of Business Journalism for Democracy

“It’s not going overboard to say that great business writing is the vital link between the public and the institutions that shape our economic lives.”—Dean Starkman, The Best Business Writing 2012 The following is an excerpt from Dean Starkman’s introduction...