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Along related lines, you might consider Adam Thierer’s excellent new book Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom .
Not just the general reason why they are bad, but rather a very specific reason. Caitlin Dewey reports about :
For all the criticism the book has received, I liked and enjoyed it. It illuminates a poorly understand segment of the financial world, namely high-frequency trading, and outlines some of the zero- and negative-sum games in that world. The stories and the writing are very good, as you might expect.
That is from The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century . Here is my first post on the book .
That is from the just-published The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century . Here is my previous post on the book .
The author is Jürgen Osterhammel and the subtitle is A Global History of the Nineteenth Century . The book’s home page is here . Piketty’s tome is French and this one is…um…German. Very German. Translated from the German. Imagine a 1165 pp. German Braudel-like take on the importance of the 19th century and here you go.
Matt Grossman, Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945 . And a related blog post Do policymakers ignore voter agendas and priorities ?, by Matt.
Peter H. Schuck, Why Goverment Fails So Often, And How It Can Do Better .
Romain D. Huret, American Tax Resisters .
Cass Sunstein, Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas .
Mai Jia’s Decoded: A Novel was a bestseller in China, and so far I am finding it compelling, and most other readers seem to agree.
John Drury, The Life and Poetry of George Herbert is a beautiful treasure and it will make my best books of the year list. Here is Herbert’s best poem .
The Rough Guide to Economics , by Andrew Mell and Oliver Walker, is another attempt to thread the needle between popular econ book and text. I would have wished for a more dramatic and intuitive treatment of a) core microeconomic reasoning in the old Chicago/UCLA style, and b) a far greater and more central place for the truly dramatic importance of economic growth in boosting human welfare.
The new Simon Schama book on the history of the Jews did not grab my attention, nor did the new short (derivative) novel by David Grossman . Possibly the latter is better in the original Hebrew, given how much poetry it contains. The new Siri Hustved book also didn’t thrill me.
The new Simon Schama book on the history of the Jews did not grab my attention, nor did the new short (derivative) novel by David Grossman . Possibly the latter is better in the original Hebrew, given how much poetry it contains. The new Siri Hustved book also didn’t thrill me.
The new Simon Schama book on the history of the Jews did not grab my attention, nor did the new short (derivative) novel by David Grossman . Possibly the latter is better in the original Hebrew, given how much poetry it contains. The new Siri Hustved book also didn’t thrill me.
That is the new book by Robert D. Kaplan, and the subtitle is The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific . Since this is possibly the most important topic in the world right now, you should read this book. Here is one interesting excerpt of many:
7. Richard Epstein has a new book on the classical liberal constitution .
The Frederick Taylor book is The Downfall of Money: Germany’s hyperinflation and the destruction of the middle class , and Martin’s is Money: The Unauthorised Biography .
The Frederick Taylor book is The Downfall of Money: Germany’s hyperinflation and the destruction of the middle class , and Martin’s is Money: The Unauthorised Biography .
The piece is fascinating throughout, and you will note that Seth is a Google data scientist with a Ph.d. in economics from Harvard. His other writings are here . Some of you may wish to see my book What Price Fame ?
The author is Ullica Segerstrale and the subtitle of this excellent and fascinating book is The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton . Here is one bit:
The subtitle is The Myth of Benjamin Strong as Decisive Leader . Here is a summary from the book’s back cover:
The new and excellent Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings biography of Benjamin has a good discussion of that essay.
That is the new book by David Sedlak and the subtitle is The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource . I found this consistently interesting, going well beyond the usual anecdotes one finds in the other general “history of water” books. Here is one bit about Japanese water relations being Coasean in earlier times: