Econ Autodidactic
There is only one true answer to any economic question: "It depends".
Monday, September 30, 2013
On Mlodinow's "The Drunkard's Walk"
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You can be back-handed and say that Mlodinow is a good writer for a scientist, but I won’t do that. He’s a good writer, period. He ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013
On Flow: Reading Csikszenthihaly
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I had seen this book referenced in some other books and I thought I would go to the source. It is an interesting book, but the structure an...
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Hayek's Categorical Error
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Hayek was scared, and rightly so if his analysis was right. Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia were nightmares of states that the rest o...
Moneyball and the Lucas Critique
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I liked numbers and economics, and Lewis is a great storyteller, so this book is recommended for lay readers of both the sporty and ner...
Break the Circle: Reading "The Power of Habit"
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I have first remark, before anything else, at how well this book is written. Subject matter aside, I read a fair number of books by e...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Production is the meaning of life? Reading "The Affluent Society"
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Galbraith was a public intellectual of a generation that I missed. I had previously read his book on the crash of 1929 and enjoyed hi...
Friday, September 6, 2013
Where I'm coming from: a bit of biography
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First appeared here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3184DHFZN4CQD I was in college what seems not too long ago (2000-2004). It was a larg...
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