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Do you know the Oxford University Press “very short paperback books” series? This is the latest entry, by Avinash Dixit , self-recommending.
I enjoyed this book , which is authored by Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel. Here is one excerpt:
Jacob Soll, The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations .
William D. Ferguson, Collective Action & Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy .
Robert E. Mutch, Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform .
David Zetland, Living with Water Scarcity . Amazon here .
Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us .
That is the new and excellent book by Dan Jurafsky , due out this September, and I found it interesting throughout. Here is just one bit:
Everyone reads One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera but actually my favorites are some of the early short fiction and also News of a Kidnapping [Noticio de un Secuestro], plus the unfinished autobiography .
Everyone reads One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera but actually my favorites are some of the early short fiction and also News of a Kidnapping [Noticio de un Secuestro], plus the unfinished autobiography .
4. Philippe Legrain, European Spring , a useful and well-written popular look at the European economic mess, $2.99 on Kindle.
You can buy the book here .
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.