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Snap, blink and bust: Gladwell, Partnoy and Lehman

Does anyone really believe that if Malcolm Gladwell had called in sick for a speaking engagement at a decision-making class at Lehman that anything would have been different at the company? Continue reading

Posted on July 25, 2012 12:24 PM

On the matter of business ethics

Talking ethics is easy. Actually doing something about it may require a saint. And there's not much of a market in sainthood these days. Continue reading

Posted on July 19, 2012 1:46 PM

Transactions: June 18, 2012

Recently, pundits with a statistical bent and a penchant for the abyss engaged in a parlor game that might go by the name of "Quantifying the Apocalypse." This game regularly occurs at financial firms, albeit in private. But The Economist's... Continue reading

Posted on June 19, 2012 10:33 AM

Transactions: June 18, 2012

Let us now quantify the Apocalypse. Or maybe not. Continue reading

Posted on June 15, 2012 12:40 PM

Maybe nein, maybe ja

You'll notice that nearly every story about the European crisis ends on a question. Until that stops, the crisis will continue. Continue reading

Posted on May 30, 2012 1:14 PM

Stray thoughts on the rise of shareholders

Are we better or worse off economically, socially and politically with shareholders in that pre-eminent a role? Continue reading

Posted on April 13, 2012 12:19 PM

Truth, lies and the allure of fact-based journalism

The combination of truth-telling and apology over a 'This American Life' 's piece on Mike Daisey's 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' has struck a nerve. Continue reading

Posted on March 19, 2012 1:34 PM

Greenspan offers his view from the mountain

The Fed chief was the very embodiment of the 'government leader' who bestowed favors for political support. Does it make a difference, does it justify things, that he may well have done much of this (not all) for ideological reasons? Can he escape responsibility by taking the long view? Continue reading

Posted on January 26, 2012 1:30 PM

Causes of the financial crisis, one more time

If you believe in a multicausal set of affairs, you then have to establish a hierarchy: What's primary, what's secondary, what's tertiary, what meaningless? In that ordering of cause, sane and reasonable people may disagree and ambiguity may rule. Continue reading

Posted on November 3, 2011 1:05 PM

What we know about the debt ceiling

Here are all the things about the debt ceiling we do not know. Nearly everything. Continue reading

Posted on July 28, 2011 12:29 PM

Politics and the economist as hero

For all their credentials, technical economists tend to be viewed by the political classes as either annoying carpers, overeducated intellectuals without a clue of the real world or comprehensible only as the instrument of some large special interest. Continue reading

Posted on June 13, 2011 2:29 PM

More on private versus public

The decline of IPOs is worrisome, but not for the reasons Felix Salmon talks about. It's a concern because a lack of IPOs will result in a shift toward a larger, more concentrated, less nimble corporate economy. Continue reading

Posted on March 28, 2011 11:15 AM

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