Industrial espionage is rampant. Embittered unions face off with corporations, and “America has become a second-rate superpower.” Welcome to 1985, as seen through the eyes of Oliver Stone. Wall Street is a fast-paced tour of mid-80s New York, complete with squash...
If you’ve read David Bornstein’s previous books, The Price of a Dream and How to Change the World (THE definitive publication on social innovators across the globe), odds are you’ve been waiting patiently for his latest oeuvre. This time around, he teams up with Susan...
Writing this piece on the holiday Monday of a long weekend, I’m struck by the fact that the above title may sound like an oxymoron – what social entrepreneur has time for “summer reading”? Yet, there are lots of reasons why our ilk should be making time for...
Hand it to Michael Moore to make a movie like Capitalism: A Love Story. His career since the late 1980s has been chock-full of provocative documentaries that are suitable for rousing conversation or heated argument (depending on how you like to communicate). That is...
Since the economic crash of 2008, publishers have been falling over themselves to publish books analyzing what happened from every conceivable angle. Most of those offerings are probably in the discount bin already, forgotten as quickly as they appeared. Somehow,...
