Category: Business

July 27, 2009

Only local business can end global poverty — R. Glenn Hubbard

In Friday’s Financial Times R. Glenn Hubbard, co-author of the forthcoming The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, argues that poor nations need a new Marshall plan that helps stimulate local businesses. As Hubbard points out the original Marshall...

May 21, 2009

Antislavery Efforts Must Focus on Demand — A Post from Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, continues his posts for Take Part with a new essay, “Antislavery Efforts Must Focus on Demand.” In the essay, Kara applies a business and economic analysis to understand...

May 7, 2009

Interview with Mitchell Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

The following is an interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk. Q: Is Social Security going to be there when I retire? Mitchell Orenstein: Surprisingly, the answer is yes. After years of...

April 9, 2009

William Duggan: Spend more on "D" and Less on "R"

William Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement and the forthcoming The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, was recently profiled in a Wall Street Journal article that looked at the decision of some major...

April 3, 2009

Feministe Reviews Sex Trafficking

The popular Web site Feministe has just posted a review of Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Here’s an excerpt from the review: “Solutions are where Kara’s analysis really shines. He offers a two pronged plan...

March 31, 2009

Mr. Bezos Goes to Lexington — A Post from the Late Age of Print

On his blog The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Culture from Consumerism to Control, discusses Jeff Bezos’s recent decision to spend a week working at an Amazon warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky....

February 18, 2009

Will Corporate Social Responsibility Survive the Recession?

In last week’s The Big Money, published by Slate, Christopher Flavelle examined whether or not corporate social responsibility (CSR) would be jettisoned for the bottom line during these very difficult economic times. While the concept of corporate social responsibility might...

January 6, 2009

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October 7, 2008

CUP Authors Weigh in on the Economy and Sarah Palin

Like much of the country, Columbia University Press authors are thinking about and writing about the downturn in the U.S. economy and the presidential election. In his article Reversal of Fortune, appearing in the November issue of Vanity Fair, Joseph...

September 29, 2008

Top Economists Examine the Crises in the Financial and Real Estate Markets

Some economists saw the dangers of the housing bubble before the recent collapse. In his piece from The Economists’ Voice: Top Economists Take on Today’s Problems, published earlier this year, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy...

July 24, 2008

India's Growing Pains in the Global Economy: An Interview with Charles Calomiris

The Columbia Business School’s Web site Ideas at Work recently interviewed Charles Calomiris, the co-editor of Sustaining India’s Growth Miracle. In the interview, Calomiris discusses how India’s growth and potential for growth compares with that of China; the challenges confronting...

July 2, 2008

International Trade & Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Bringing together the approaches of ethics and economics, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Barry and Reddy elaborate their argument in...