Calvin H. Johnson (Texas): How to Raise $1 Trillion Without a VAT or a Rate Hike. The Death of the Fittest: Why are the healthiest and wealthiest populations failing to reproduce? On reality television: An excerpt from Rich People Things by Chris Lehmann. Will the Wall Street Journal Book Review sink or swim? (and more) On "trolleyology": David Pizarro finds killing whitey is the right thing to do. A review of The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-historical Selves by John Christman. My life as a carny: Nathan Comp goes on the road with rough characters, tough bosses and a sense of family. Bruce Hoffman on today's highly educated terrorists. "We must go beyond knowing to doing": In a world obsessed with the MBA degree, few have questioned its relevance in today’s business environment. A review of Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones. The prospect of having more years added to our lives and, perhaps, decades to those of future generations has inspired a number of new books on ageing and its implications for society. Isabel Kaplan on why we should read "soft pornography". From Business Week, how Oliver Stone got the greed right: A cadre of trading floor veterans helped Oliver Stone capture the details and nail the nuances in Wall Street. Gordon Gekko was supposed to be a villain — instead, he became a Wall Street folk hero. How Wall Street changed Wall Street: The film’s hold on the people it so roundly condemns is testament to its enduring influence on an industry with a notoriously short memory (and more).
