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...Brothers, Kidder Peabody and Lazard - was that it wasn't just an ideological commitment to boosting shareholder value that drove decisions to merge, break up and restructure companies, but also the work culture of Wall Street itself. Ho, now a professor at the University of Minnesota, talked with Barbara Kiviat about her findings, presented in Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, and how she thinks the recent financial collapse has - or hasn't - changed things. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...coming crash in stocks made him a rock star of the last bubble, too. His latest book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism , was written with University of California, Berkeley economist George Akerlof. Shiller spoke with TIME's Barbara Kiviat...
INSIDE Preserving jobs--even if the alternative is losing them--can be demoralizing in certain ways too BARBARA KIVIAT ON SALARY REDUCTIONS
...When the secretary in the photo-illustration for Barbara Kiviat's insightful article on jobs says, "I invested in my work skills," she hits the key right on the typewriter. Knowledge and skills - the stuff jobs are made of, no matter the economy - are our most valuable assets. Kiviat's article reminds us all to keep our knowledge current and our skills marketable for our jobs of both today and tomorrow. Dustin Weiderman, Rochester...
When the secretary in the photo-illustration for Barbara Kiviat's insightful article on jobs says, "I invested in my work skills," she hits the key right on the typewriter. Knowledge and skills--the stuff jobs are made of, no matter the economy--are our most valuable assets. Kiviat's article reminds us all to keep our knowledge current and our skills marketable for our jobs of both today and tomorrow. Dustin Weiderman, ROCHESTER...