Showing posts with label Attraverso. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attraverso. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Neil Irwin's The Alchemists delivers on its promise: the book is a central banker's view of the 2007/200...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Attraverso Commentary - Tarullo on Basel III and Short Term Wholesale Funding

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By Professor Jeffery Atik The Federal Reserve's Dan Tarullo has been a key player in post-Crisis U.S. bank reform and in the negotiati...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Attraverso Review: The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition by Arjun Appadurai

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By Professor Jeffery Atik In this collection of essays, Arjun Appadurai links his role as leading globalization scholar to his practice as a...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Attraverso Review: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Nassim Nicholas Taleb is back, and in his new book he asserts that his signature idea was not The Black Swan (th...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Attraverso Review: The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig

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By Professor Jeffery Atik I have the odd habit, with academic writing, of first reading the notes and then returning to the central text. ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Attraverso Review: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists by Napoleon Chagnon

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Napoleon Chagnon's title promises a visit to two dangerous tribes: the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. He ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Attraverso Review: Bull by the Horns: Trying to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Bull by the Horns is part defense of past action, part call-to-action. Sheila Bair served as chairman of the Fed...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Attraverso Review: Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a grand intellectual project and a call for action. Graeber's b...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Attraverso: ECB's new role as eurozone bank regulator

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Early Thursday morning (December 13) eurozone finance ministers agreed to take a first step toward establishment...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Attraverso Review: Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Mark Pagel addresses the conundrum posed by variegated cultures. Culture -- what we have that monkey's don...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Attraverso Review: Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets by Annelise Riles

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By Professor Jeffery Atik And yes, Riles pulls it off. She promises an "ant's-eye view" of these stories, consistent with tr...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Attraverso Review: Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence by William Silber

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By Professor Jeffery Atik So what would a Democrat central banker look like -- if there could be one? Resembling Paul Volcker, answers Wil...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Book Review: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates

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By Professor Jeffery Atik What a fun book this is! The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates mixes pop finance with pop science, sketc...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Attraverso: Supreme Court to hear major gray-market case

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By Professor Jeffery Atik On Monday, Oct. 29, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in *Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*, a ...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Book Review: Private Empire: Exxon-Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Steve Coll's Private Empire provides oil spill-to-oil spill coverage of the recent history of Exxon-Mobil, a...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

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By Professor Jeffery Atik If only Lytton Strachey had written this biography of Steve Jobs. He would have punctured Jobs, ridiculed his ...
Monday, October 1, 2012

Attraverso - Digital Copyright Crimes and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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By Professor Jeffery Atik The IP provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a regional trade agreement involving the United States...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Book Review: What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and the Modern Chinese Consumer by Tom Doctoroff

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By Professor Jeffery Atik In this unabashedly pop business book, Tom Doctoroff, head of the J. Walter Thompson advertising firm in China,...