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Jack Ewing has covered business and economics from Frankfurt for The New York Times since 2010. He has worked as a journalist in Germany since 1994, including over a decade as a BusinessWeek correspondent.

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I really enjoyed reading the history of the development of the southwestern part of Costa Rica. It’s a fascinating account of transitioning from farming/ranching to ecotourism including the requisite change in valuing of biodiversity. The writing is not the best but the personal stories that would otherwise be lost more than make up for it. It is a fascinating personal history of the place around Haceinda Baru near Dominical.
 
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Neil_Luvs_Books | May 4, 2024 |
A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud
Unable to build cars that could meet emissions standards they only to have the lie exposed by a handful of researchers on a shoestring budget, If you look at the banking scandals, it was usually people who were trying to get big bonuses to make money that could trying to defend market share and meet the expectations top management hard on set for employees, normally corporate scandals stem one unrealistic targets metod with draconian consequences that chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in damage as CO2g emissions and how the fraud was committed, with sistematic covered up of the Press, and finally detected with rips of the scandal.… (meer)
 
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tonynetone | 3 andere besprekingen | Mar 28, 2019 |
Jack Ewing's book provides a fine overview of the VW Dieselgate scandal. Although providing not much more than what had already been published in newspapers, it is good to have it all laid out in one place.
 
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M_Clark | 3 andere besprekingen | Feb 23, 2019 |
In this still on-going tale of corporate malfeasance one keeps returning to the introverted and authoritarian corporate culture of Volkswagen, in that the ultimate issue is that warnings were already in place that the firm would be hammered if their new range of diesel-powered cars did not meet the environmental standards required but the firm still convinced itself that it could flaunt those rules in pursuit of its growth agenda. There is little reason to believe that chief executive Martin Winterkorn and, ultimately, his mentor Ferdinand Piech did not demand that Volkswagen's engineers use every means possible to advance their vision. The question is what will eventually happen to the corporate governance of Volkswagen and whether the Porsche & Piech clans will retain their current level of power; they've certainly done enough to deserve losing their control.… (meer)
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