J.P. Morgan: celebrated, powerfully unambiguous, oligarchically connected, pillar of American history. The man with the bushy furrowed brows, pudgy fat nose, and bulging adams apple. As a school boy, he was infirm, aloof, and disliked. As a business titan his stubby ...
What do Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Roger Penrose have in common? Well, certainly there must have been something, but it wasn’t the content of their books. Smith and Keynes were economists, Penrose is a mathematical physicist. Still, I’ve mentioned ...
This is a fantastic book. I bought it when it was first published (in 2002), and my copy is well used. The idea seems to be basically to publish everything you need to know about business, that a book can teach you, between two covers. The reality of course is that ...