Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Retirement Heist explains “what really happened....to the retirement benefits of millions of Americans at thousands of companies” and “how the global retirement industry will continue to capture retirement wealth earned by many to enrich a relative few.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Even the title is enough to make the cynical sigh, “If only it could be so.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Frank manages to parse a distinction between the libertarian view of “true” free market capitalism and the “crony” variety, but refuses to defend the odor of either. But it does help clear some of the muddle from the rhetoric raging today.”
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
Ironically a book on “Unthinking” will have listeners thinking as author Beckwith proposes his theories of what makes products desirable and what marketers do to get people to buy their products
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business. He has extensive senior policy experience in the federal government, having served from 1998 to 2000 in the White House and the U.S. Treasury. He is the founder and chairman of RGE Monitor (rgemonitor.com), an economic and financial consulting firm, regularly attends and presents his views at the World Economic Forum at Davos and other international forums, and is an adviser to central bankers around the world. Stephen Mihm writes on economic and historical topics for The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, and other publications. The recipient of numerous fellowships, he was the Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School from 2003 to 2004. He is currently an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, where he teaches courses on American political, cultural, and economic history.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the Atlantic Monthly article "Is Google Making us Stupid?" and the books The Big Switch, and Does IT Matter? He has also written for the New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, and other periodicals
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into twenty-two languages, and the best seller Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also cofounding editor of The American Prospect magazine and provides weekly commentaries on public radio's Marketplace. He lives in Berkeley and blogs at www.robertreich.org.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
DANIEL GOLEMAN is the author of the international bestsellers Emotional Intelligence, Working with Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence, and the co-author of the acclaimed business bestseller Primal Leadership. He was a science reporter for the New York Times, was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and received the American Psychological Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his media writing. He lives in the Berkshires.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
JAMES K. GALBRAITH holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale. He studied economics as a Marshall scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and then served on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group at the LBJ School, is a senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and is chair of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional association.
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