by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | About the Site, Articles
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been recognized as an ABA “Blawg 100.” Of course, Adam Smith, Esq. is not and never has been a “blawg,” much less a “blog.” We’re a publication, albeit one that’s online....
by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
And I respond here (transcript) and here (podcast).Among the highlights:[Me:[ One of the things that started to happen before the Great Recession was, for example, I saw this most clearly in the rise of starting salaries to a $160,000 in New York and major...
by Bruce | December 5, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Practice Group Management, Strategy
I doubt many of you, gentle readers, follow David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times, but I commend him to you as an enlightened, thoughtful, and experienced observer at the intersection of media,...
by Bruce | December 2, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Just Plain Interesting
Ever wish you could commission a quick poll of economic experts to opine on issues of current interest? Well, you can’t, but we have the next best thing: The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business’s Initiative on Global...
by Bruce | November 24, 2011 | About the Site, Articles
From the Upper West Side: Santa’s Float About to Enter the Tail End of the Macy’s Parade
by Bruce | November 24, 2011 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
Today we’re talking about books. Specifically, Robert Frank’s The Darwin Economy and David Rose’s The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior. I believe the first–far better known–is a failure and the second–while too drily...