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Always win, and other lessons from the life of rapper Jay-Z
(Photo: Stephanie Noritz) One lazy summer, I was driving my nephews (ages 12 and 10) along a dusty rural road when they asked me to put on some music. I turned on my iPod, and the last song I’d been...
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Books: Knowing you’re wrong is more important than being right
(Photo: Anna Lisa Sang) Nearly four decades ago, Canadian biologist John Endler noticed something interesting about guppies. Studying the fish in their native habitats in Venezuela and Trinidad, he...
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Books: A corporate secretary’s guide to doing the right thing
(Photo: Anna Lisa Sang) One December day in 2008, Eleanor Squillari’s boss was arrested for securities fraud. The next day, the secretary arrived at her office to find it a scene of utter chaos: phones...
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Books: The End of Influence
(Photo: Anna Lisa Sang) THE END OF INFLUENCE: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (Basic) Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Well, nothing especially good happens, according to this...
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Books: The Tanning of America
(Photo: Anna Lisa Sang) THE TANNING OF AMERICA: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy (Gotham) Steve Stoute “You know what? F**k William Shatner,” says the...
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You don’t have to be a genius to change the world
Photo: Euthman/Wikimedia Commons On Oct. 5, capitalists and consumers alike took time out from their busy lives to mourn the passing of Steven Paul Jobs. “It’s like the day Princess Diana died,” one...
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Add books to Canada’s endangered species list
(Photo: Helen Sessions/Alamy/Getstock) In today’s day and age, how dumb are laws that prevent foreign ownership of certain businesses? In almost every case, really dumb. I usually harp on how such laws...
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Kindle Fire puts the heat on the iPad
No one’s predicting the downfall of the iPad— there’s a fine line between bold and stupid— but Amazon’s Kindle Fire will singe away tablet market share from almighty Apple, to say nothing of Samsung...
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Why big chains like HMV are losing to the little guys
(Photo: Loudrocksurfer/Wikimedia) A few months back, a revelation hit me while I was hanging out on Queen Street West, one of Toronto’s trendy shopping districts. On this particular walk, I had popped...
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5 business ethics must-reads
Business ethics is a number of things—an academic discipline, a field of practical expertise and, increasingly, a central business function. But in order to say anything useful about ethical issues in...
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Every love story is a ghost story: David Foster Wallace’s struggle for...
David Foster Wallace, the American novelist and essay writer, was beloved during his lifetime for his stylistic invention and heartfelt, if erratic, genius. But since his death by suicide in 2008, he...
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How to thrive in the next Industrial revolution
Erin Seaman If there’s a theme that unites Democrats and Republicans in this, the most partisan of American seasons, it’s the idea that the Unites States, once a manufacturing power, would like to...
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The end of the book business
(Photo: Charles Sykes/AP) I loved the ’90s. In the new digital age, everything was going to be possible, and everything was going to be awesome. Sure, some industries would be disrupted, but the...
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Why everything (still) costs more in Canada
(Photo: Kraig Scarbinsky/Getty Images) Wondering why stuff still costs more in Canada compared to the U.S., despite a dollar that now routinely hovers around par? A federal report out today tries to...
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Money out of thin air
Photograph by Farzin Ghayour; Getty In The Alchemists, Neil Irwin uses the financial crisis to explore the birth of the central banker and his remarkable power to create money. In 2007, as players in...
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Foodie fascists must die: the gospel of eating local artisinal food
Photographs by Farzin Ghayour; iStock In the spring of 2006, Michael Pollan, a Berkeley professor and longtime journalist, published a magazine story about shooting and eating a wild pig. The piece was...
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Why we need to take tourism more seriously
Photograph by Farzin Ghayour; iStock When I was 18—eager to postpone university and take advantage of a British passport that let me work anywhere in Europe—I bought a backpack and a ticket to France....
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Quebec’s proposal to regulate book prices is anti-consumer: Chris MacDonald
The Quebec government’s proposal to regulate the price of books is wrong-headed in all sorts of ways. The proposal—or rather the range of proposals, currently being considered by a parliamentary...
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It’s alive! Canadian book publishing stirs
(Photo: Hamin Lee) At first blush, 2012 was not a good year for independent Canadian book publishing. It began with Random House, owned by German conglomerate Bertelsmann, finally and completely...
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What was the best business book of 2013?
We’re still weeks away from Christmas, but “best of” season—the annual compiling of cultural lists and rankings—is already well under way. Last weekend, the Globe and Mail put out its list of the best...
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