Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The US and China: Neither Friends Nor Rivals from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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As Washington prepares for a visit from Chinese President Hu Jintao this week, we take a look at what lies ahead in the shifting relationshi...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

George DeMartino on economic ethics from The Economist: Finance and economics

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The author of "The Economist's Oath" on the need for ethical debate within the economics profession and why some will ardently...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Price of Everything from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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Everyday, all of us spend money on things — things we need, and things we don’t. And in turn prices are put on those things. But where do th...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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In finance, short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling assets, usually securities, that have been borr...

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System... and Themselves

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"Too big to fail" is a term of art in regulation and public policy that refers to businesses dealing with market complications rel...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

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Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed is a 2009 nonfiction book about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told th...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Economists See Growth with Unemployment Report from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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The Labor Department is expected to release December unemployment numbers this morning. And there are rumors the president may also announce...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

H.W. Brands: American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

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From the Pritzker Military Library : From the beginning, the nation’s commander-in-chief and its capitalists have been uneasy partners in th...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Jonathan Bloom: American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)

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From the blog, "Wasted Food" (maintained by Jonathan Bloom): Americans waste more than 40 percent of the food we produce for consu...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Raghuram G. Rajan: Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

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Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. D...

Greg Farrell: Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America

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From the book's promotional website: Greg Farrell is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Me...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Gordon Brown: Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

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The author of his controversial and interesting books were recently the subject of a review on The Economist, which was titled "Oh me, ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Perry Mehrling: The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

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The author was recently quoted as stating that the United States' Federal Reserve Bank was acting, in fact, as the world's central b...