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Rakesh Khurana’s “From Higher Aims to Hired Hands”
Rakesh Khurana’s book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession is a profound contribution to...
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Data-ism: Fuel for Frey’s Fiction Factory?
Momus once predicted that, on the Internet, everyone will be famous for 15 people. But there are still valiant warriors against media fragmentation. Epagogix tries to find the movie scripts that will...
View ArticleThe Business Section of “The Last Newspaper”
The New Museum of Contemporary Art has hosted an exhibit called “The Last Newspaper” the past few months. Part of the exhibit centers around newspaper-based art. Another focus has been a “hybrid of...
View ArticleA2K, Practice, Nonknowledge
Congratulations to all involved on the publication of the A2K volume! I think A2K is a provocative way of framing some contemporary debates around knowledge, information, community, property,...
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Protean Rankings in the Economy of Prestige
Paul Caron brings news of the ranking system from Thomas M. Cooley School of Law, which pegs itself at #2, between Harvard and Georgetown. Caron calls it “the most extreme example of the phenomenon we...
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Search Neutrality as Disclosure and Auditing
Search neutrality is on the rise in Europe, and on the ropes in the US (or at least should be, according to James Grimmelmann). We barely have net neutrality here, and the tech press bridles at the...
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Key Performance Indicators: Power as Knowledge
There is an excellent review essay by Simon Head on the future of British universities in the NYRB. It discusses the Strategic Plan of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE),...
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“Linking Skepticisms” About the Finance Sector
Brian McKenna published an interesting piece in the Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, which is reprinted here. He quotes Financial Times Managing Editor Gillian Tett on one underexplored...
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Vaidhyanathan’s Googlization: A Must-Read on Where “Knowing” is Going
Google’s been in the news a lot the past month. Concerned about the quality of their search results, they’re imposing new penalties on “content farms” and certain firms, including JC Penney and...
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Review of Daniel Altman’s Outrageous Fortunes
Daniel Altman’s book Outrageous Fortunes is consistently smart, engaging, and counterintuitive. Ambitious in scope, it discusses several important forces shaping the global economy over the next few...
View ArticleAuditing Studies of Anti-Depressants
Marcia Angell has kicked off another set of controversies for the pharmaceutical sector in two recent review essays in the New York Review of Books. She favorably reviews meta-research that calls into...
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No More Fire, the Water Next Time
Paul Campos thinks I am cemented to the wall of Yale Law School by the blood of a thousand students, murdered by rapacious professors. Among its many other vices, does legal education teach you to...
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Hot Summer Flashes, Black Urban Mobs
Like Professor Zick, I am grateful for the invitation to share my view of the world with Concurring Opinions. I’d like to pick up where his post on strange expressive acts left off and, along the way,...
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Two Crises, One Response
The US faced two great crises during the first decade of the 21st century: the attacks of September, 2001, and the meltdown of its financial system in September, 2008. In the case of 9/11, the country...
View ArticleBernard Harcourt’s Realist Political Economy
It’s becoming clearer that classic Keynesian stimulus—ranging from Obama’s minimalist jobs program to the robust visions of a Krugman or Delong—won’t be enough to get us out of the Great...
View ArticleAn Irrational Undertaking: Why Aren’t We More Rational?
By unanimous reader demand – all one out of one readers voting, as of last week – this post will explore the small topic of the biological basis of “irrationality,” and its implications for law....
View ArticleThe idealization/practice nexus
Inspired by Orin Kerr’s question (“is your work focused on the internal narratives and ideologies that people use to describe/justify what they do, or is it focused externally on the actual conduct of...
View ArticleLombardo on Legal Archaeology
Paul A. Lombardo published an essay “Legal Archaeology: Recovering the Stories behind the Cases” in the Fall 2008 issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. It reminded me of the wonderful...
View ArticleHi, Keep It Open, But Behind a Paywall
Andrew Morin and six others have argued for open access to source code behind scientific publishing so that the work can be tested and live up to the promise of the scientific method. At least, I think...
View ArticleWhy Do We Lack the Infrastructure that We Need?
Brett Frischmann’s book is a summa of infrastructural theory. Its tone and content approach the catechetical, patiently instructing the reader in each dimension and application of his work. It applies...
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