Author: Marcus Hale
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The limitations of mathematical modeling
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Mike Jakeman reviews Escape from Model Land, by Erica Thompson, which contends that overreliance on mathematical models is…
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Employee resource groups are more than “food, fun, and flags”
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In The Power of Employee Resource Groups, the diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Farzana Nayani provides a practical…
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Could it be quitting time?
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Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Annie Duke’s Quit, a book that explores why we stay in jobs and relationships when…
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In a data-led world, intuition still matters
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Daniel Akst reviews Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information, by Christopher Frank, Paul Magnone,…
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A new look at the microchip’s midlife crisis
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Mike Jakeman reviews Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, a book that…
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The other Machiavelli
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Daniel Akst revisits Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, a lesser-known work by the Florentine political philosopher that nevertheless has…
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Spinning uncertainty into success
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Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr’s The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility…
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Healthier, wealthier, and wiser?
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Mike Jakeman reviews Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, by UC Berkeley economics professor…
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The letter of the law
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Daniel Akst reads The Comfort Letter, by Arthur R.G. Solmssen, a 1975 novel about a lawyer, an empire…
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Sports, by the numbers
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Mike Jakeman reviews Stanford Business School professor Paul Oyer’s An Economist Goes to the Game, which explores the…
