Friday Roundup

Fridays are usually a slow day on the OUP Blog but for some reason, today we have a lot to say (maybe because it is frigidly cold out and typing keeps us warm).

Without futher ado, our first Friday roundup:

• Congratulations to Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work founding the Grameen Bank, which provided collateral-free “micro-loans” to the poor in Bangladesh. To learn more about Yunus’s extraordinary efforts check out The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein. Bornstein’s book tells the remarkable story of the Grameen Bank and how it revolutionized the way people around the world fight poverty.
• Today the New York Times had an article about a jobless man who robbed a bank to tide him over until Social Security kicked in.
  

  “It’s not the financial plan I would choose, but it’s a financial plan,” the prosecutor, Dan Cable, said.”

  If that doesn’t make you believe in The Great Risk Shift, well nothing will.

• Next Wednesday, October 18th, Archbishop Desmond Tutu winner of the 1984 Nobel
  Peace Prize, will lead a discussion at NYU School of Law on The Handbook of Reparations the first volume to examine reparations programs for victims of human rights violations throughout the world. This program, organized by the International Center for Transitional Justice, looks like it will be superb.
  • Wednesday, October 18th.
  • NYU School of Law
  • Tischman Auditorium
  • 40 Washington Square
  • NY, NY 10012
  • RSVP to [email protected] or call 917-637-3800 by Monday, October 16th.
• And finally, a hearty congratulations to Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.