If you were to draw a thread through the business articles in last week’s New Yorker, you would think that business is full of toy-loving, outsider psychopaths who dabble in deconstructionism.
That last point about deconstructionism I find offensive. (The rest is probably true.)
In the article likening derivatives to deconstructionism, Lanchester doesn’t do enough to differentiate [...]
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Deconstructing Drivel on Derivatives
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Thomas Frank’s Unfortunate Frankness
This really great piece of criticism from the current New Yorker about Thomas Frank’s newest book got me thinking about seeing Thomas Frank again.
I saw Thomas Frank well before What’s the Matter with Kansas?, back when he was just publishing The Baffler and getting his PhD at Chicago. It was around 99 or 00, and [...]
Private vs. Public?
The New Yorker has an article about Private Equity big-shot Stephen Schwarzman in their anniversary edition. When we hosted a pub quiz last year, I asked about Schwartzman and his birthday party, and NO ONE knew who he was.
When I read general audience articles about bidness and finance junk, I’m always interested in how [...]