24 Posts found for source_year: 2009

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., … [ Read more ]

Author: Simon Johnson | Source: The Atlantic (May2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Finance | Investing

An era of debt-fueled consumption has come to an end, and with it the economic culture that created it. If government is going to fill in for consumers, it will need to be smart about how it spends.

Author: Martin Walker | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy

The book, that fusty old technology, seems rigid and passé as we daily consume a diet of information bytes and digital images. The fault, dear reader, lies not in our books but in ourselves.

Authors: Christine Rosen, Daniel J. Boorstin | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Culture

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive … [ Read more ]

Author: Joshua Wolf Shenk | Source: The Atlantic (June2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior