Sunday, July 24, 2016

Prohibition Will Confuse Our Grandchildren as it Should Embarrass Us: Wainwright's "Narco-Nomics"

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Narco-nomics This was an interesting book with a good angle - the fact of prohibition drive so much crime both at the source of the drug...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

On Gleick's "The Information"

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This book is a wide-ranging take on information from before Babbage to today’s computers with a side trip through theories and practices of...

I Finally Read Piketty's Capital!

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This is one of those books I was looking forward to reading so much that I went and ordered it early, even though it was pretty pricey - co...

Utopias to Utopia: David Frayne's "The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work"

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This is an interesting text since I haven’t thought much myself about the systemic disalienation of your labor as a point of protest. The f...

On "Invisible Influence" by Jonah Berger

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I end up reading a lot of these kinds of books that are basically repackaged original research (much of it done by other researchers) that i...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Pragmatism Wins: Cohen and DeLong's "Concrete Economics"

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Brad DeLong easily has the most interesting mind in modern economics. Before this book, I was unfamiliar with his co-author. But when I...

Chernow's Hamilton: Very Little Singing and Dancing

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Reading Chernow’s biography of Washington several years ago, it was clear that the author had a special warm place in his heart for Ham...