by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
Interesting perspective on the Economist and how it has manged to surpass other weeklies like Time and Newsweek. Review: Voice of the New Global Elite.
by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Business
Must-read Matt Taibbi on Romney. Astonishing. Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.
by Tom | Aug 30, 2012 | Business
How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo in Vanity Fair demolishes the idea of the stack rank for intelligent tasks. The corporate in-fighting that the bottom-10%-out approach created is breathtaking. On the meat of the article, it is true that MS has been outpaced by Apple in the...
by Tom | Nov 17, 2011 | Business, Reading
Lots of reading about a range of disruptions over the last week. Reinventing fire actually gives a blueprint for its stronger economy based on efficiency and renewables. After the disappointment of Tim Jackson’s book (which said that we need a non-growth...
by Tom | Nov 7, 2011 | Business, Reading
I had no idea how tiny BP, Shell and Exxon were in the scheme of things. This also gives a hint as to how much money the state-backed oil companies bring in to their home countries each year (vs, e.g. Exxon quarterly profits of $10bn) McK wonders whether there will be...
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Business
Economics of open-access publishing makes the extraordinary claim that the profits (note: not turnover) of the publishing arms of two firms (Elsevier and Springer’s) would be enough to pay to publish (including editing and peer review) all the 1.5 million...
