Hindustan Times
It’s always been a subject of abiding interest, and now London’s Sunday newspaper, The Observer, is doing a series of articles/sketches about it. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by meghashankar on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged articles, hindustan times, Jorge Luis Borges, news, sketches, studies, The Observer, windows, Writers
It seems odd now — with Citibank boss Vikram Pandit saying that he will take a $1 salary and no bonus because of the downturn — to think of a time when go-getting stockbrokers and investment bankers would go into paroxysms of anxiety, self-doubt and depression at the news of a $400,000 bonus. Michael Lewis’s sharp and oddly prescient The Money Culture, first published in 1991, gives us a trenchant, sardonic portrait of that vanished age. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Citibank, London School of economis, The Money Culture, The Observer, Vikram Pandit
