Category: Business

May 9, 2011

Howard Marks on CNBC

Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, was recently interviewed on CNBC. Among other issues, Marks discussed the impossibility of intelligently investing in commodities; how best to value a company; and the prospects...

April 22, 2011

The Most Important Thing — A Good Money Move

In their annual list of new ideas about how to make the most of your money, the editors from Money Magazine suggested reading The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, by Howard Marks. Money writes, Warren Buffett...

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which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed.”–Ed Hess, Forbes The capitalism envisaged by Adam Smith has been replaced by what Ed Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by...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...

January 4, 2011

Interview with Stephen Penman, author of Accounting for Value

Q. What’s an extroverted accountant? A. One who looks at your shoes while he is talking to you instead of his own. The above joke comes from a recent interview on Ideas at Work with Stephen Penman, author of the...

December 16, 2010

Year-End Accolades for Smart Growth by Edward Hess

Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, by Edward Hess has been receiving a variety of year-end accolades. Inc. Magazine listed it as one of the year’s best for business owners. In recommending the book,...

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....