Animal Spirits: How Human
Psychology Drives the
Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
By George A. Akerlof and
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton University Press, 264 pages, $24.95
Get Reagan off our backs!—translated into layman’s terms, that’s how distinguished economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller begin Animal Spirits, their inquiry into the role of Read More
The Subprime Solution:
How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened,
and What to Do About It
By Robert J. Shiller
Princeton University Press, 196 pages, $16.95
Different year, different boom, same Cassandra.
Robert Shiller, the Yale economist who borrowed Alan Greenspan’s phrase “irrational exuberance” for the title of a 2000 book predicting the collapse Read More
SPOOK COUNTRY
By William Gibson
Putnam, 371 pages, $25.95
By setting his new novel in the recent past—just as he did in Pattern Recognition (2003)—William Gibson once again suggests that post-9/11 international intrigue has become more bizarre than any futuristic world his famed sci-fi imagination might invent. Spook Country begins in early 2006 Read More
Back when he was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Jonathan A. Knee got performance reviews that praised his knowledge and energy, but warned that his “straightforward, no-nonsense style” could “sometimes be too blunt and rub people the wrong way.” On the evidence of his memoir, The Accidental Investment Banker, he hasn’t changed a Read More
Back when he was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Jonathan A. Knee got performance reviews that praised his knowledge and energy, but warned that his “straightforward, no-nonsense style” could “sometimes be too blunt and rub people the wrong way.” On the evidence of his memoir, The Accidental Investment Banker, he hasn’t changed a Read More
