PBS’s P.O.V. series presents Utopia Pt. 3, The World’s Largest Shopping Mall, a 13-minute film on the South China Mall in central Dongguan, a city of 6 million north of Hong Kong. More than twice the size of the Mall of America, the mall is like Las Vegas and Disneyland combined — except that it…
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On WBUR’s Here and Now, today, New York Times business columnist David Leonhardt pointed out that the excessive bonus pay at AIG (and now, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) are only a symptom of the larger problem of excessive executive pay. He suggests that one way to deal with this that actually works, is to…
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