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That is just one of the stories colorfully told and illustrated in The Origins of Value (Oxford), edited by William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst. The two economic historians turn what could have been a bone-dry survey of arcane financial instruments into a lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose...
This time the story begins in the autumn of 1864. The intricate and troubled General William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops on his devastating final campaign of the Civil War. To demoralize the South, the seditious countryside of Georgia and the Carolinas is being deliberately humbled. Sherman's foraging parties are smashing the crockery of rich planters and making off with livestock and whiskey. Hundreds of slaves--men, women and children--are deserting their defeated masters and attaching themselves as refugees to Sherman's advancing army. "On the march," one character tells...
...known for a cost-cutting initiative that squeezed suppliers and saved nearly $10 billion over five years, Watanabe, 63, takes charge at a time when Toyota (2004 sales: 7.5 million vehicles) is on track to eclipse General Motors as the world's largest carmaker. He spoke to TIME's WILLIAM GREEN and MICHIKO TOYAMA at his company's headquarters in Toyota City, Japan...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told The Crimson last week that the admissions office had received over 250 inquiries about the openings for visiting students...
...Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Roberts whether, as chief justice, he would follow in the footsteps of William H. Rehnquist, the late chief justice for whom Roberts once clerked...