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By Andrew Rosenblum 2/17/09 8:46pm

Citizens Keynes

Animal Spirits: How HumanPsychology Drives theEconomy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismBy George A. Akerlof andRobert J. ShillerPrinceton 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 human psychology in the economy. The Read More

By Andrew Rosenblum 9/03/08 3:39pm

Bubble Buster

The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About ItBy Robert J. ShillerPrinceton 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 of the dot-com bubble due to Read More

By Andrew Rosenblum 8/07/07 4:24pm

Has Gibson Lost Ability to Terrify Us?

SPOOK COUNTRYBy 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 and presents the Read More

By Andrew Rosenblum 9/18/06 12:00am

An I-Banker Talks Straight— And Shares Some Gossip, Too

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
By Andrew Rosenblum 9/18/06 12:00am

An I-Banker Talks Straight- And Shares Some Gossip, Too

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 bit. Read More