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Why do we assume that economists have a firm grasp on the markets when the economy itself is driven by innovation and new, unfamiliar ideas? Romantic Economist author Richard Bronk wishes to address this...
From December 23, 1871 to September 13, 1873, one of the first embassies of Meiji Japan traveled throughout the US and Europe on a fact-finding mission. Led by Prince Iwakura, their task was to re-negotiate...
Every week, we’ll get a look at book selling and culture through the eyes of our field reps. This week, with our “inaugural” piece, Bob Barnett of Louisville on his Obama Inauguration...
Puzzle Monster posted an interview with Robert Abbott, puzzlist and creator of Eleusis. Abbott shared his game with the world through Martin Gardner’s Scientific American column. Read More ?
For the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, what better place for NPR to trace his roots than at Cambridge University. Weekend Edition Sunday sent a correspondent to the Sedgwick Museum, where they’ll...
From the Charlotte Observer, January 20 Will Barack Obama govern as a Moderate, a Centrist, or a left of center Democrat? Every sane person is a moderate in the sense of disliking extremes and striving...
In a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel interview, author David Friedman discussed Obama’s tech-savvy. ‘Still, an Internet-friendly president could also mean one who is more exposed to different points...
Last weekend’s International Herald Tribune (the New York Times international edition) interviewed Berkeley economic historian Jan de Vries on what seems to be a growing trend: DIY culture. In the...
Let’s Make a (New) Deal For historian Lizabeth Cohen, writing in Sunday’s Boston Herald, it’s natural to compare the circumstances as President Obama takes office to those of FDR. The...
While we’re on birthdays… Saturday saw celebrations of Cambridge University’s 800th year. At the centerpiece of the celebrations – a very cool looking light show projected onto...
Poe turns 200 today, and several Poe cities are throwing parties. This wasn’t necessarily the case back at the first 100-mark. I found an article from December 1908 decrying the lack of planned celebrations. New...
From Lima, Darwin yearns for a roaring fire in merry old England, while looking forward to visiting the Galapagos Islands; chiefly for geological reasons. To William Darwin Fox [9–12 August] 1835 Lima July,1...
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