Showing posts with label Legal Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legal Theory. Show all posts
Thursday, September 5, 2013

The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan

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By Professor Jeffery Atik It feels odd to be composing this review of Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan's  The Org  in the days following R...
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...
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...
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,...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Book Review: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity by Luigi Zingales

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By Professor Jeffery Atik In the preface to A Capitalism for the People , Luigi Zingales recounts his departure from an Italian universi...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Book Review: Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

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By Professor Jeffery Atik Acemoglu and Robinson's Why Nations Fail is a thrilling read. It proposes answers to grand questions: Why ...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Book review: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel

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By Professor Jeffery Atik In What Money Can't Buy , Michael Sandel decries the emergence of markets that displace older norms, ...