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New on nybooks.com: Creativity and the economy, explaining ISIS’s rise, Elon Musk, the revival of a great university in India, nail salons, and the art of Katsushika Hokusai.
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Edmund S. Phelps
What is wrong with the economies of the West—and with economics? It depends on whether we are talking about the good or the just.
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Anonymous
None of our analysts, soldiers, diplomats, politicians, or journalists has yet produced an explanation rich enough—even in hindsight—to have predicted the movement’s rise.
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Sue Halpern
The portrait of Elon Musk that emerges from Ashlee Vance’s new biography is of a man of visionary intellect, fierce ambition, and fantastic wealth, who is emotionally bankrupt.
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Amartya Sen
The powerful vision behind Nalanda University is important for India, for Asia, and for the rest of the world. It must be free of authoritarian and sectarian pressures.
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Richard Bernstein
As a former New York Times journalist who also has been, for the last twelve years, a part owner of two day-spas in Manhattan, I read the paper’s nail-salon exposé with particular interest.
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Christopher Benfey
Japanese ghosts have been haunting my dreams, summoned by a striking Katsushika Hokusai exhibition in Boston, and by other stray events that stirred up spectral associations with the Japanese master’s mesmerizing art.
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