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Finance & Development December 2008 |
Book Reviews The Arab Economies in a Changing World, Marcus Noland and Howard Peck... Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade, Bill Emmott... The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Present of American Affluence, Robert J. Samuelson, etc. |
Science News December 5, 2008 Janet Raloff |
Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest To End Famine By Gary Paul Nabhan Born in 1887, Nikolay Vavilov is known for creating the world's first major seed bank. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 3, 2008 Jim Heskett |
Can Housing and Credit be "Nudged" Back to Health? Two current books, Nudge and Enough, help us understand the roots of the current housing and credit crises as well as possible ways of avoiding them in the future. |
Bank Technology News December 2008 Anthony Malakian |
Harnessing the Power Of the Crowd Jeff Howe's book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, looks at the evolution of crowdsourcing and the industries and companies that benefit from the open call for ideas. |
CFO December 1, 2008 Edward Teach |
"Every Crisis Begins with a Shock" Panic then and now -- the enduring legacy of 1907. |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being. |
Reason December 2008 Damon W. Root |
Sterilized by the State In his startling new book, Three Generations, No Imbeciles, University of Georgia law professor Paul A. Lombardo looks at the Supreme Court's notorious 1927 decision in Buck v. Bell, which upheld a Virginia law permitting the forced sterilization of the "feebleminded and socially inadequate." |
Reason December 2008 Jesse Walker |
What's the Matter With Libertarians? In his new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Thomas Frank blames the freedom movement for Jack Abramoff and George W. Bush. |
Reason December 2008 Nick Gillespie |
Sharks Stuffed With Money In the insightful and compulsively readable book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark author Don Thompson discusses the curious economics of contemporary art. |
Reason December 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction. |
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