From The Objective Standard, a look at The Morality of Moneylending: A short history. Publishing tycoon and philanthropist Christopher Ondaatje attempts to make the arcane world of finance more accessible in The Power of Paper: A History, a Financial Adventure, and a Warning. Pirates of private equity: An insanely lucrative investment strategy finally faces public scrutiny. Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the pseudo-science hurting markets. Performance-pay perplexes: James Surowiecki on how CEOs, like hedge-fund managers, are paid to make bad decisions. Kicking ass in an unflat world: The Economist on . A review of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity by Anne Elizabeth Moore. A review of Adland: a Global History of Advertising by Mark Tungate. A review of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want by James Gilmore and Joseph Pine. From New York, a special issue on money, including seven very different stories about the kinds of things that happen when dollars change hands; Web Bubble 2.0: Well, maybe it is a bubble. But out in Silicon Valley, they don’t think of that as a bad thing at all. From Carnegie Council, a talk with Robert Reich on Supercapitalism. Michael Tomasky reviews The Conscience of a Liberal. Is Paul Krugman a good historian? Michael Kazin investigates. Home-office politics: Why Americans who work for themselves deserve a New Deal. It's a dirty job, but someone has to get rich doing it. The human side of the Clockwork Orange: How does it feel to be working while most people are sleeping?
