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A Debt Crisis…5,000 Years in the Making
by David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, 2011) Debt is all around us. Modern economies run on consumer debt; modern nation-states, on deficit financing; international relations turn on debt. What’s more, for the last three … Continue reading
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How to Run the World
by Parag Khanna, author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Random House, 2011) The past decade—from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the global financial meltdown—has taught us the dangers of interdependence and that outsourcing … Continue reading
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Using Carrots and Sticks
by Ian Ayres, author of Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done (Bantam, 2010) Rob Harrison is one of the most beloved teachers at Yale Law School. He has improved the writing and emotional outlook … Continue reading
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Third World America
by Arianna Huffington, author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway, 2011) As a young girl growing up in Greece, I remember walking to school in the city of … Continue reading
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Ecoliteracy 2.0
by Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence: The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy (Broadway Business, 2010), a book selected by Virginia Tech for its 2009 and 2010 Common Book Project. Near the start of the 20th century William James wrote … Continue reading
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Can We Really Flip the Switch?
Brothers Chip Heath, professor of Organizational Behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and Dan Heath, a consultant to the Aspen Institute, have followed up their bestselling and course-adopted book Made to Stick with a groundbreaking book that addresses … Continue reading
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