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You have to appreciate the paradox of Banksy: A commercially successful anti-capitalist. A vandal who adds value. It’s the sort of amusing contradiction that appears often in the artist’s own work. A case in point: In 2009 Banksy made a wall painting on an industrial estate outside Croydon, South London, depicting a spike-headed punk rocker puzzling [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 4 Comments
Joseph Stiglitz teaches at the Columbia Business School and Columbia’s Department of Economics and, of course, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. The money quote from his appearance had less to do with economics per se and more with democracy: “We have too many regulations stopping democracy, and not enough regulations stopping Wall Street from misbehaving.” [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 4 Comments
Doc Zone, a documentary series produced by CBC Television, is now airing, Meltdown, a four part investigation into the great financial debacle of 2008. Along the way, the CBC’s Terence McKenna takes viewers “behind the headlines and into the backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions, revealing the astonishing level of [...]
≡ Category: Business, Economics, Yale | ≅ Leave a Comment
In March 2000, Yale economist Robert Shiller published Irrational Exuberance, a book that warned that the long-running bull market was a bubble. Weeks later, the market cracked and Shiller was the new guru. Fast forward a few years, and Shiller released a second edition of the same book, this time arguing that the housing market was the [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 7 Comments
Al Jazeera forced many Westerns viewers to take their reporting seriously during the Egyptian uprising this spring, and now the Qatar-based news network has released a timely reportage (Aug. 2) on the fault lines in America — on the gap between rich and poor that only grew wider this week. Alexis de Tocqueville they’re not. [...]
≡ Category: Art, Business, History | ≅ 1 Comment
No light, no civilization. It’s pretty much that simple. And it’s this simple idea that m ss ng p eces, a Brooklyn-based creative company, explores ever so artfully in The Story of Light. Here’s how they introduce the video: We have used light for survival, to learn by, to entertain and express ourselves, mold experiences, and illuminate our [...]
≡ Category: Business, Current Affairs, Economics | ≅ 7 Comments
Last month, China hit another major milestone. It passed Japan and became the second largest economy in the world, leaving only the US in its way. Give China a decade, maybe a little more, and it will inevitably surge into the lead. That’s the accepted narrative. But then we come across this: the possibility that a [...]
≡ Category: Business, Film, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
In the late 1990s, Errol Morris, the acclaimed director, was hired to make a film for an “in house” conference of IBM employees. Eventually IBM canceled the conference, and the film was scrapped. (Watch a clip of it here.) Now more than a decade later, IBM has brought Morris back, this time to direct a film [...]
≡ Category: Business, Math, Random | ≅ Leave a Comment
There’s high drama in the classroom at the University of Central Florida. Richard Quinn, a longtime business instructor, gives 600 students their mid-term exam. Then comes the anonymous tip that cheating is rampant. Forensic analysis bears that out. Ultimatums are made. Moral lessons drawn. Soon the confessions – all 200 of them – follow. A rough [...]
≡ Category: Business, Education | ≅ 2 Comments
This coming Monday and Tuesday (November 15 & 16), The Economist will host a free online MBA fair, giving business school candidates the chance to chat with admissions officers and current students from over 20 international b-schools. Schools participating in the online forum include Brandeis, Cornell, Pepperdine, Queens University, the University of Toronto, and the [...]
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