Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Young Money by Kevin Roose: Not enough data points

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From where I’m sitting, this came out a couple of months ago. It was the talked-about book of the early spring, but it was eclipsed by Pike...
Monday, April 21, 2014

The Divide: Taibbi's writing has matured, but the system is still broken

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Taibbi’s last book, Griftopia, got to me.   Not like it made me mad, but you could tell the seething rage that was behind his words and i...

David Harvey: Contradictions have the nasty habit of not being resolved but merely moved around.

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By this point, I have read enough David Harvey to know his house style.   Loquacious in person, his prose can feel torturous at times. Th...

Commie Girl in the OC: Dated but Funny

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Verso – that fine radical imprint – recently had a sale to commemorate the opening of its virtual storefront (I’m sure they had somet...

GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History -- Good history, short on the alternatives.

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I read Stiglitz and Sen’s “Mismeasuring   Our Lives” a while back, and I bought their arguments that GDP was itself defective and o...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Quick thought on: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn

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Reading this book can be a chore. It takes some time, and is kind of dense. The down side is that if you read this book at the right time...
Friday, April 4, 2014

The rent is too damn high: not as bad as you might think.

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My normal position on Matt is that he needs kicked in the teeth.  I know him as the economics blogger at slate. You know he "only"...