Tento autor zkoumá hluboké spojení mezi cestováním a osobní identitou, často se ponoří do méně prozkoumaných koutů světa. Jeho psaní vyniká sugestivními popisy a citlivým zachycením místního ducha. Prostřednictvím svého díla zve čtenáře na cestu objevování, která přesahuje pouhý zeměpis. Jeho literární přístup je zakořeněn v důkladném pochopení lidské zkušenosti a touhy po dobrodružství.
Visiting Africa's game reserves is often about spotting 'The Big Five', but what about those animals you have almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox drew up a list of the most elusive animals and set off to find 'The Impossible Five'.
"TIME" economics columnist Fox describes the rise and fall of the world's most influential investing idea--the efficient markets theory--and its replacement with behavioral economics in a lively history of ideas.
From Paul Theroux and Peter Moore to Jonny Steinberg, JM Coetzee, Jonathan Kaplan, Nelson Mandela, Mamphela Ramphele, Tom Eaton, Breyten Breytenbach, Pieter-Dirk Uys and Gabeba Baderoon: Discover Cape Town with top contemporary authors both well-loved locals and international travel writers. Selected and with an introduction by Justin Fox.Read how JM Coetzee fails to get into a good school. Nelson Mandela misplaces his spectacles on the Grand Parade. Jonathan Kaplan faces arrest at St. George s Cathedral. Paul Theroux meets a fellow pessimist at Cape Point. Jonny Steinberg is revolted by prison food. Joseph Lelyveld joins Crossroads residents singing hymns. Richard Rive walks with ghosts in District Six. Rian Malan haggles for snoek in Kalk Bay. Pieter-Dirk Uys attends a fake wedding on Greenmarket Square. Edwin Cameron climbs Table Mountain with the help of antiretrovirals. Judy Kibinge parties in Long Street. Plus many more...
A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Exploring the evolution of the modern financial industry, the narrative delves into the rise and decline of the efficient market theory, intertwining intellectual debates with cultural history. It highlights influential figures who shaped finance, from Wall Street's early days to contemporary crises. The book captures the drama of scholars who gained and lost fortunes, engaged in fierce intellectual battles, and influenced global markets. It ultimately examines the dual nature of free market capitalism, showcasing both its wealth-generating potential and inherent risks.
The financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent Great Recession demolished many cherished beliefs—most significantly, the theory that financial markets always get things right. Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market explains where that idea came from, and where it went wrong. As much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk, it also brings to life the people and ideas that forged modern finance and investing—from the formative days of Wall Street through the Great Depression and into the financial calamities of today. It's a tale featuring professors who made and lost fortunes, battled fiercely over ideas, beat the house at blackjack, wrote bestselling books, and played major roles on the world stage. It's also a story of free-market capitalism's war with itself.
“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review “Fox makes business history thrilling.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lively history of ideas, The Myth of the Rational Market by former Time Magazine economics columnist Justin Fox, describes with insight and wit the rise and fall of the world’s most influential investing the efficient markets theory. Both a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book of the Year—longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and named one of Library Journal Best Business Books of the Year—The Myth of the Rational Market carries readers from the earliest days of Wall Street to the current financial crisis, debunking the long-held myth that the stock market is always right in the process while intelligently exploring the replacement theory of behavioral economics.
The majestic Cederberg mountains in the Western Cape region of South Africa are home to the elusive Cape Mountain Leopard. But for how long? The population has been decimated over centuries by human enemies and the survival of these glorious and mysterious cats is in jeopardy. Thanks to zoologist Quinton Martins and his Cape Leopard Trust, there may just be hope that the species will survive and continue to reign over its rocky habitat.This is the story of the elusive, endangered Cape Mountain Leopards, and the man who has made it his life's work to save them.
I've been craving the road for some time, writes Justin Fox odd words for this most seasoned of travel writers. But there is more to Restless, anxious about an uneventful slide into my late 30s... And thus begins ten thousand kilometers around the edge of the Republic. Hugging the comforts which distance offers agitated souls, he bears east from Cape Town. This is fatherland, and for Justin his father s land, which the famous architect Revel Fox has marked as much as he had shaped his son s own identity. Justin tarries at outposts and towns; he skips entire cities to favor the off-beat treasures of characters fashioned less by convention than by their own battles against nature or circumstance. Back home his dad is fighting cancer. Having travelled with acute observation he reports like a novelist, stringing together scenes, pictures, communities and characters to form a totality of what South Africa is today as seen from its a sad, exciting clash of histories and stories.
Our desire to view, capture and share our experiences is obvious in more than a century of travel photography. In Africa, there is probably no single entity that has produced as many varied images as Getaway.
In 1973 at the age of 6, Justin Fox went on a Grand Tour of Europe with his parents - from Cape Town to London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Rome and the Greek Islands. This is his story of the magic of travel, the experience of other placed and people - all of which has made him one of today's great travel writers.