Cornelius Gurlitt sadly passed away on Tuesday this week. Shortly thereafter, the news broke that he had left his art collection to a museum outside Germany. Today, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, confirmed it was the beneficiary under Gurlitt’s last will. In a very open and frank statement, it expressed the museum’s surprise: Read More
Month: May 2014
“Just Business”
John Ruggie’s book, “Just Business – Multinational Corporations and Human Rights” has finally landed on my desk, thanks to a blog reader. The book was launched almost to the day a year ago (see here for a video of the event at the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice on May 4, 2013). But as the blog reader kindly pointed out, the Washington Foreign Law Society just announced that John Ruggie will receive the Harry LeRoy Jones Award on June 11, 2014 for his contribution to developing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, so I do have an excuse to post on the book. Read More
Piketty-Mania Is Reaching Germany. Slowly. By 2015.
The English-language press has been all over the place on Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. It is sold out on amazon.com. But if you are not patient enough to wait for the real thing, you can order an executive summary. Today.
The Washington Post even felt it had to help its readers: To those who do not want to feel any longer like they are the only person who hasn’t weighed in on Thomas Piketty’s book, the Post offered guidance: “How to write a Thomas Piketty think piece, in 10 easy steps.”