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Volume 56, Number 9 · May 28, 2009 The Failure of the Economy & the Economists By Benjamin M. Friedman Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press, 230 pp., $24.95 ...
What to Do - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 11/25/2008 — Volume 55, Number 20 · December 18, 2008 What to Do By Paul Krugman What the world needs right now is a rescue operation. The global credit system is in a state of paralysis, and a global slump is building momentum as I write this. Reform of the ...
The Crisis & What to Do About It - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 11/9/2008 — Volume 55, Number 19 · December 4, 2008 The Crisis & What to Do About It By George Soros 1. The salient feature of the current financial crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil or a particular ...
The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 7/28/2009 — Volume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009 The News About the Internet By Michael Massing Books, blogs, Web sites, and essays discussed in this article: Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press by Eric Boehlert Free Press, 280 ...
The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 10/16/2009 — Volume 56, Number 17 · November 5, 2009 1989! By Timothy Garton Ash BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ESSAY 1989: The Struggle to Create Post–Cold War Europe by Mary Elise Sarotte Princeton University Press, 321 pp., $29.95 Uncivil Society: 1989 and the ...
How to Understand the Disaster - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 4/21/2009 — Volume 56, Number 8 · May 14, 2009 How to Understand the Disaster By Robert M. Solow A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression by Richard A. Posner Harvard University Press, 346 pp., $23.95 No one can possibly know ...
Fear of Failure
business.theatlantic.com 6/21/2009 — I'm a big proponent of the transformative power of failure. Failure is nature's way of saying "Don't do that any more!", and is therefore a necessary part of achievement and innovation. And so I'm inclined to like this speech very...
A Government Failure, Not a Market Failure
online.wsj.com 7/10/2009 — As a people we need, at all times, the encouragement of home ownership. --HERBERT HOOVER, 1932 The idea that home ownership confers special benefits on American society is deeply embedded in our culture so much so that our national tax policy confers ...
The Crisis and How to Deal with It - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 5/22/2009 — Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009 The Crisis and How to Deal with It By Bill Bradley , Niall Ferguson , Paul Krugman , Nouriel Roubini , George Soros , Robin Wells et al. Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by ...
Pakistan on the Brink - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 5/17/2009 — Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009 Pakistan on the Brink By Ahmed Rashid To get to President Asif Ali Zardari's presidential palace in the heart of Islamabad for dinner is like running an obstacle course. Pakistan's once sleepy capital, full of ...
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 3/6/2009 — Volume 56, Number 5 · March 26, 2009 Capitalism Beyond the Crisis By Amartya Sen 1. 2008 was a year of crises. First, we had a food crisis, particularly threatening to poor consumers, especially in Africa. Along with that came a record increase in ...