Andrew Winston, co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, was recently interviewed on the Invisible Hand Podcast with Chris Gondek. Listen to the Podcast here.
Posted by Reed Hundt, author of In China’s Shadow. While Iraq burns, China, inexorably, strengthens. Not a day goes by without reading in the newspaper, any newspaper, signs of China’s increasing economic prowess. But in a real sense, it’s not the Chinese government or even Chinese workers that pose a
Upcoming Yale Author Events: 10/16 • Tony Robbin, Shadows of Reality; lecture at University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, 2-6pm 10/17 • Godfrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand; lecture at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University 10/18 • Godfrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand; lecture at Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for
Saturday, October 14, marks the centennial of the birth of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), the German-born political philosopher whose analysis of the nature of power, totalitarianism, and the “banality of evil” still resonates powerfully in our own time. “So it is no accident,” says Edward Rothstein in the New York Times,
Upcoming Yale Author Events: 10/2 Reed Hundt, In China’s Shadow, on CNBC’s Power Lunch, 12-1:30pm 10/4 Jay Hopler, Green Squall, Main Library, Salt Lake City 7pm 10/6 Reed Hundt, In China’s Shadow, at Nikkei Institute, San Francisco Reed Hundt, In China’s Shadow, at Google employee event, 11am 10/11 YUP at
Here is a list of upcoming Yale University Press Author Events: 9/26 Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston, Green to Gold, on ABC’s Money Matters Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone, Messiaen, Penn State University, State College, PA, lecture and lecture-recital 9/27 Alan Wolfe, Does American Democracy Still Work?, On Point Radio
“Though Thailand is a constitutional monarchy and the king has only limited formal political power, he is highly influential and is revered by the Thai public after more than 5o years on the throne. Armored vehicles seen moving in the capital bore ribbons of bright yellow, a color associated with
With the midterm congressional races heating up and November 7 right around the corner, we are once again privileged witnesses of American democracy in action…or, as Alan Wolfe sees it, American democracy inaction. In his new book, Does American Democracy Still Work?, Wolfe identifies the current political conditions that have
There will be a Book Club session on TPMCafe for Reed Hundt’s In China’s Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship on Monday, September 25th and in the days following. TPMCafe is an off-shoot of Josh Micah Marshall’s popular TalkingPointsMemo blog. Their regular contributors are a mix of academics, former government
As summer days give way to school days, you may find yourself asking, “Where do teachers come from?” Many of them come from ed schools, institutions that get little respect. They are portrayed as intellectual wastelands, as impractical and irrelevant, and as the root cause of bad teaching and inadequate