Recent Articles

"How New York Lost the Apparel Business," Bloomberg.com, April 18, 2012

Book Review: Garbology, by Edward Humes, The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2012

"Why Retailers Don't Recover from Bankruptcy," Bloomberg.com, March 7, 2012

"Defending Mom-and-Pop Stores," Bloomberg.com, February 2, 2012

"Don't Grieve for the Great A&P," HBR.org, January 30, 2012

Book Review: Stealth of Nations, by Robert Neuwirth, The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2011

"Imagining a World Without Chain Stores," The Washington Post, June 10, 2011

"Japan's Disaster and the Manufacturing Meltdown," ForeignAffairs.com, April 17, 2011

Book Review:  The Docks, by Bill Sharpsteen, The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2011

"Financial Re-regulation: Basel III's Unfulfillable Promises," ForeignAffairs.com, October 3, 2010

"Is the Smart Grid Really a Smart Idea?" Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2010

"So Much for All This Summitry," Reuters, June 24, 2010 

"Financial Reform Gives Insurance a Free Ride," Reuters, June 21, 2010 

"Reforming the Eurozone" (Interview), CFR.org, May 10, 2010 

"Muddling through Greece's Tremors," CFR.org, May 7, 2010 

"Faulty Basel: Why More Diplomacy Won't Keep the Financial System Safe," Foreign Affairs, May-June, 2010

Book Review: Uncommon Sense, by Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner, Journal of Economic Literature, March 2010