Category: Business
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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…
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Lessons in mismanagement
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Daniel Akst identifies lessons for managers in Glengarry Glen Ross, the transfixing film made from David Mamet’s Pulitzer…
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The hidden costs of the middleman economy
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Tom Ehrenfeld reviews Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source,…
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To improve management, build a decision factory
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In their new book, Decision Leadership, professors Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman peg leadership success to…
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Why economies crash
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Mike Jakeman reviews The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do…