Category Archives: economics
What Would Google Do? (Jeff Jarvis)
It’s difficult to remember the Internet before Google. In just over ten years, the little company begun in a Menlo Park, California garage has grown into a globally-known giant. Its name has become a common verb. Its search engine is … Continue reading
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Banana (Dan Koeppel)
Bananas start my day. I eat one almost every morning and seldom leave a grocery store without a fresh bunch. But the familiar yellow Cavendish banana is a threatened fruit, succumbing to Panama Disease in several parts of the world … Continue reading
The Big Switch (Nicholas Carr)
History has been known to repeat itself. In The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny [LibraryThing / WorldCat], Nicholas Carr identifies one trend that seems to be doing a rerun in our modern world. He connects the rise of electrical utilities … Continue reading
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Freakonomics (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner)
Back in my college days, economics was one of the careers I considered. I even graduated with a minor in the subject despite excelling in little more than the fundamental supply and demand graphs from my very first Macroeconomics 101 … Continue reading
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