Thursday, June 11, 2009
6 Degrees of UA
Just like the "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, what we have here is "6 Degrees of UA" . I bet you didn't know that Bernard Madoff once attended UA. Check out this site from the New York Times.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World
by Daniel Friedman.
Read about the book @ Amazon.
Appetizer: Friedman notes that morals and markets need realigning so that they work better together. To take a small example, as he mentions in chapter 12 "Future Morals and Markets", would be to consider spam e-mail. He says the underlying cause is that it:
"costs almost nothing to e-mail a thousand more strangers about how to make a fortune or improve their sex appeal. A spammer can make money if only one person in ten thousand goes for the bait, but all ten thousand suffer from clogged in-baskets and wasted time. It's a classic social dilemma, and the profit opportunity has defeated all technical fixes tried so far.
Perhaps it would be more effective to harness people's moral outrage. For example, require all e-mail senders to post a bond, perhaps twenty dollars for an ordinary user, and a much larger sum for anyone who wanted to send bulk mail. Have routers confirm the bond balance before forwarding messages, and let recipients click a "spam" button to take a nickel or so from the sender's bond. This cheap form of vengeance would, I believe, soon raise the cost of sending another unwanted email enough to make spam unprofitable." (Friedman, pages 179-180).
Have you read this book?
Click here to see if Bruno Library copy is available.
Read about the book @ Amazon.
Appetizer: Friedman notes that morals and markets need realigning so that they work better together. To take a small example, as he mentions in chapter 12 "Future Morals and Markets", would be to consider spam e-mail. He says the underlying cause is that it:
"costs almost nothing to e-mail a thousand more strangers about how to make a fortune or improve their sex appeal. A spammer can make money if only one person in ten thousand goes for the bait, but all ten thousand suffer from clogged in-baskets and wasted time. It's a classic social dilemma, and the profit opportunity has defeated all technical fixes tried so far.
Perhaps it would be more effective to harness people's moral outrage. For example, require all e-mail senders to post a bond, perhaps twenty dollars for an ordinary user, and a much larger sum for anyone who wanted to send bulk mail. Have routers confirm the bond balance before forwarding messages, and let recipients click a "spam" button to take a nickel or so from the sender's bond. This cheap form of vengeance would, I believe, soon raise the cost of sending another unwanted email enough to make spam unprofitable." (Friedman, pages 179-180).
Have you read this book?
Click here to see if Bruno Library copy is available.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely. View a profile on Wikipedia. See one of his lectures on YouTube.
This book, dealing with the psychology of behavorial economics will be sure to impress and entertain you as well as enlighten you educationally.
See the Amazon profile.
Have you read it? What did you find interesting about it?
Click here to see if the University Libraries copy is available. (Note: this book is in Gorgas).
This book, dealing with the psychology of behavorial economics will be sure to impress and entertain you as well as enlighten you educationally.
See the Amazon profile.
Have you read it? What did you find interesting about it?
Click here to see if the University Libraries copy is available. (Note: this book is in Gorgas).
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street
by Janet M. Tavakoli
Tavakoli (click here to see the the C-Span Q&A with Tavakoli on YouTube) had an opportunity to have lunch/discussion with famed investor Warren Buffett just prior to the recent financial crisis. She acknowledges in the preface that her book is "not about Graham's [Benjamin] ideas or Buffett's ideas, it is about my reinterpretation of my own ideas about the financial markets as I looked through the lens of the value framework of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett."
Read more about the book here at Amazon.
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
Read it? What did you think?
Tavakoli (click here to see the the C-Span Q&A with Tavakoli on YouTube) had an opportunity to have lunch/discussion with famed investor Warren Buffett just prior to the recent financial crisis. She acknowledges in the preface that her book is "not about Graham's [Benjamin] ideas or Buffett's ideas, it is about my reinterpretation of my own ideas about the financial markets as I looked through the lens of the value framework of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett."
Read more about the book here at Amazon.
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
Read it? What did you think?
Friday, February 27, 2009
21 Ideas for Managers: Practical Wisdom for Managing Your Company and Yourself
by Charles Handy
"Capitalism, particularly in America, is a very exhausting business, it tires people out." Charles Handy, management expert and founder of the London Business School
This seems like an odd quote, especially coming from someone who started a business school. One of the great things about this blog is the ability to share business content with its readers. I enjoy listening to NPRs Marketplace where I recently heard a thought-provoking commentary on the current state of the economic recession. To listen to this gentleman's wise commentary click here .
The Bruno Library has a number of Handy's works such as:
Click here for status. Have you read this? Any comments?
"Capitalism, particularly in America, is a very exhausting business, it tires people out." Charles Handy, management expert and founder of the London Business School
This seems like an odd quote, especially coming from someone who started a business school. One of the great things about this blog is the ability to share business content with its readers. I enjoy listening to NPRs Marketplace where I recently heard a thought-provoking commentary on the current state of the economic recession. To listen to this gentleman's wise commentary click here .
The Bruno Library has a number of Handy's works such as:
Click here for status. Have you read this? Any comments?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Money Meltdown : Restoring Order to the Global Currency System
by Judy Shelton.
In light of recent events with the stimulus package comes the potential for inflation if we continue to print huge sums of money backed up by the government fiat system.
Economist/author, Judy Shelton, opines in today's Wall Street Journal (Feb. 12, 2009, page A13) as saying,
"We need money that works for the legitimate producers and consumers of the world -- the savers and borrowers, the entrepreneurs. Not money that works for the chiselers."
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
In light of recent events with the stimulus package comes the potential for inflation if we continue to print huge sums of money backed up by the government fiat system.
Economist/author, Judy Shelton, opines in today's Wall Street Journal (Feb. 12, 2009, page A13) as saying,
"We need money that works for the legitimate producers and consumers of the world -- the savers and borrowers, the entrepreneurs. Not money that works for the chiselers."
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino
by Kim Fellner
This new book in the Bruno collection takes a look at the multi-faceted attempts of a large corporation to be a proponent for social justice while at the same time being concerned about the business side of running a multi-national corporation in a globalized economy.
Readers comments?
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
This new book in the Bruno collection takes a look at the multi-faceted attempts of a large corporation to be a proponent for social justice while at the same time being concerned about the business side of running a multi-national corporation in a globalized economy.
Readers comments?
Click here for status of book in Bruno Library.
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