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Reuven Brenner formerly held the Repap Chair at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management. He is the author of many books and monographs, including The Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets (Thomson/Texere, 2002) and (with Gabrielle A. Brenner) “Venture Capital in Canada: Lessons for Building (or Restoring) National Wealth,” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 22:1 (Winter 2010), 86-98.

March 16, 2020|capitalism, Ideology, socialism, venture capital

Behind the “-Isms”

by Reuven Brenner|

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The use of -isms distract us from the basic question: what political and private institutions are better at matching people to capital.

December 13, 2019|Israeli Defense Forces, securities and exchange commission, Silicon Valley, Tom Nicholas, VC: An American History, venture capital

What Is the Venture Capital Secret Sauce?

by Reuven Brenner|

Aerial view of Sandhill Road, home of many Silicon Valley venture capital firms, in Menlo Park, California, April 19, 2018 (Zenstrata/Shutterstock.com).

A new book by a Harvard Business School professor does not, alas, illuminate what it might be.

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

The Just Restraint of the Vicious

For some contemporary criminal justice reformers, devotion to ideology leads to illogical conclusions about human nature and character change.
by Gerard T. Mundy
Too Immature to be Punished?

When I look back on my own life, I think I knew by the age of ten that one should not strangle old ladies in their beds.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Badge of Discrimination

The British National Health Service has spoken: Wear the badge or declare yourself to be a bigot.
by Theodore Dalrymple
A Judicial Takeover of Asylum Policy?

Thuraissigiam threatens to make both the law and the facts in every petition for asylum—and there are thousands of them—a matter for the courts.
by Thomas Ascik
The Environmental Uncertainty Principle

By engaging in such flagrant projection, the Times has highlighted once again the problem with groupthink in the climate discussion.
by Paul Schwennesen

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