How has the Bowler Hat featured as part of the iconography of the banking industry? For answers, turn to Jane Davison, BA (Liverpool), MA, PhD (London), FCA, FHEA, who is Professor of Accounting at the Royal Holloway, University of London. The professor’s paper on the subject ‘Icon, iconography, iconology Visual branding, banking and the case […]
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Pole Dancers and Stock Brokers
What psychological / philosophical concept might serve as a way to connect these two photos – featuring pole dancers and stockbrokers? One answer, a surprising one according to authors Karina Paludan Nielsen and Kristina Stockunaite (who recently participated in the MSocSc in Social Science in Service Management programme at Copenhagen Business School) is ‘Flow’ [for […]
Investment hint from Ig Nobel Prize winner Gideon Gono
Exciting investment news from Zimbabwe: Every now-nearly-worthless 100-trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill might, just might, soon be worth more than 100 trillion US dollars. Eyewitness News reports: [President Robert ] Mugabe urged people who still have worthless Zimbabwe dollars not to tear them up, as they will be compensated. Central Bank chief Gideon Gono told Mugabe […]
The risk of regulating risk, they write calculatingly….
Finance puzzles many people. This new study may make finance less puzzling, or more puzzling, or both: “Any Regulation of Risk Increases Risk,” Philip Z. Maymin [pictured here] and Zakhar G. Maymin, arXiv:1004.1670v4, April 20, 2012. The first author identifies himself as Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU-Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York. The second author […]