Mr. Market


Here are links to old articles, columns, and reviews that are somehow related to the culture of money, work, or markets. Links to Slate pieces will take you to Slate's web site.

The Radical Happy
An explanation of the “Fish!”
phenomenon, from Inc. Magazine

August 2002

Ozzy As Manager
A brief meditation from the heyday
of “The Osbournes,
from Slate.
April 24, 2002

Why Quitting Is Back

An argument for disloyalty, from Slate.
April 17, 2002

My Pro Forma Life
Later included in a book called The Best
Business Stories of the Year: 2003, this
essay appeared in Slate.

April 2, 2002

Overvalued: Why Jack Welch Isn’t God
The piece that failed to change the conventional
wisdom, from The New Republic.

June 11, 2001

Defining Greed Up
A review of a Dinesh D’Souza book,
from The New York Times Book Review
.
January 7, 2001

“One Market Under God”
A review of Thomas Frank’s book,
from The NewYork Times Book Review
.
November 19, 2000

The I.P.O. Boomers
Late 1990s market mania as Woodstock
parallel, from The New York Times Magazine.

June 20, 1999

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