I would love to put these economists on the couch and explore what is going on in their heads that enables them to observe the objective reality of the recent economic devastation, yet still hold as sacred their most basic, yet obviously flawed, beliefs about a free-market-driven financial system.READ»
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This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ»
As if in response to yesterday's story about a Princeton scientist's hope to improve government through crowdsourcing, Washington has launched a series of democratic idea incubators that aim to align government action with public ...READ»
Yesterday I wrote about the Kindle's tepid reception on the Princeton campus, and suggested that the device might not be ready for educational use. But pilot programs at other schools, involving both Kindles and iPhones, have ...READ»
My college, Columbia University, is planning a takeover in West Harlem. Within 25 years, University officials say, Columbia will expand with a new, $7 billion, 17-acre, Renzo Piano-designed satellite campus in "Manhattanville." ...READ»
In a book that I’m presently working on (Your $100,000 Career Plan: Match Your Personality to a Six-Figure Job), I classify a group of occupations under the heading “professional,” and one common characteristic I note among ...READ»
The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for classroom assignments recently, it received ...READ»
Lawyers have their oath of attorney, and doctors have that Hippocratic one, but it struck Max Anderson, a Princeton alumnus who today graduates from the Harvard Business School, that MBAs have nothing. And so he and several of his ...READ»
If you've ever wanted to see what a neural network looks like inside your own brain, then the new Visuwords visual dictionary might be the closest you'll ever get.
When you enter a word into Visuwords, it creates a graphical ...READ»
When I'm taking a weekend away from work, the last things I usually want to grab for reading materials are the design books sent to me from publishers that march like a Great Wall of Nice Typefaces across my desk. But there was ...READ»
When I teach business classes, one of my favorite discussion sessions looks at whether the personal characteristics of the person make a difference when choosing a CEO. I use the example of Avon when they appointed Andrea Jung as ...READ»
Do you know who to blame for those crazy-low CD returns? The 10 men and women of the FOMC -- five regional Fed presidents and five Fed governors -- will gather October 28 -- 29 in Washington, D.C., to set monetary policy and consider interest rates. READ»
The gregarious founder of the pathbreaking e-commerce company holds forth on cracking eggs, Mike Meyers, and other nonvirtual wonders of the world.READ»
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