Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club - these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the "sharing economy" is that you are not helping a friend for free, you are providing…
"Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club -- these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the 'sharing economy, ' is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are provi…
"From the founder of the leading online trading education company Pristine.com, a simple technical method to trade or investMany trading books present esoteric trading concepts and complicated indicators that may look good on paper when viewing the past, but prove ineffective in…
"From the founder of the leading online trading education company Pristine.com, a simple technical method to trade or investMany trading books present esoteric trading concepts and complicated indicators that may look good on paper when viewing the past, but prove ineffective in…
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldw…
'Leading economists presenting fundamentally important issues in economic theory' is the theme of the Nancy Schwartz lectures series held annually at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University. Reporting on lectures delivered in the years 1983 thro…
Culture and economy after the cultural turn
"Imagined Futures offers a new explanation for the dynamics of modern capitalism and the restlessness of our economy, based on our temporal orientation. Building on a historical account of how competition and the credit system have forced actors to orient their decisions towards…
"Imagined Futures offers a new explanation for the dynamics of modern capitalism and the restlessness of our economy, based on our temporal orientation. Building on a historical account of how competition and the credit system have forced actors to orient their decisions towards…
Max Weber's account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-incre…
