Wednesday: Annotated Biblio-blography

Everyone is still talking about the economy this week (surprise, surprise).
Apparently the weakened euro isn’t enough incentive:
Monday’s New York Times has a piece about declining American tourism in Rome, which caught my eye because the accompanying photo is the same Bulgari window on the Via dei Condotti that I snapped and uploaded to a recent [...]

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Break out the European luggage!

OK, we may not have designated Louis Vuitton “European” luggage à la Emily Gilmore (of our much-missed Gilmore Girls TV show; don’t knock it, this show was crammed with wit and cameos by the likes of Norman Mailer and The Shins).  Nonetheless, as we are not about to let things like job searches, dissertations, or [...]

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Money matters

For academics wanting to take a break from the headlines in order to experience a more measured approach to the current financial crisis, I have two recommendations that are free from partisan politics and posturing.
 The first, Ronald T. Wilcox’s Whatever Happened to Thrift: Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It (2008) is [...]

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