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This is one of the best books on contemporary China, maybe the best.  The subtitle is Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China .  Osnos is the former New Yorker correspondent in the country for five years up through 2013.  Here is one excerpt:

The subtitle is Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century , and the authors are Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer.  John Meyer passed away in 2009 and this volume is a finished version of his last major work.

That is from an advertisement for Antony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See .

Cass Sunstein, Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State .

David Colander and Roland Kupers, Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up .

George J. Borjas, Immigration Economics .

Jean Pisani-Ferry, The Euro Crisis and its Aftermath .

The author is Don Thompson and the subtitle is Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art .  It is a very enjoyable book on the economics of the contemporary art world, here is one bit:

You can buy the book here , and here is a Questia link to the text .  And here is his 1966 book The Automation Hysteria .  It seems he had the temperament of a debunker.  I don’t know much about Terborgh, but for a while he was a private sector economist and also a research economist at the Fed .

You can buy the book here , and here is a Questia link to the text .  And here is his 1966 book The Automation Hysteria .  It seems he had the temperament of a debunker.  I don’t know much about Terborgh, but for a while he was a private sector economist and also a research economist at the Fed .

That is the new and truly excellent book by George Prochnik , think of it as a selective biography focused on themes of exile, perversion, Brazil, and suicide.  Excerpt:

It is The Society of Equals , by Pierre Rosanvallon , and it is a transatlantic look at how the notion of inequality has changed over the last three centuries.  It strikes me as the sort of book Crooked Timber would have a symposium on.  Here is one good bit:

You can buy the book here .

That is the new book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, with the subtitle The Global Race to Reinvent the State .

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...

The author is Judy Foreman and the subtitle of this excellent book is Healing our Biggest Health Problem .  Here is one excerpt:

The authors are Levitt and Dubner and the subtitle is The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain .