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3. Glenn Reynolds, The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself .
2. Alberto Simpser, Why Governments and Parties Manipulate Elections .
1. Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent, Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies .
The interview is in general interesting on the history of American food. I have just ordered her new book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal .
That is a new volume edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy.
This part reminds me of some ideas in my own Risk and Business Cycles :
The expected creative powers of female musical artists are continuing to increase, especially when it comes to composition. Taylor Swift therefore will produce another album of good songs, though the burden of extreme fame , and the accompanying difficulty of replenishing her creative wells, will hold her back from five more such albums. Bergoglio will pass and be forgotten, as he has not built the necessary coalition within the Vatican and also I do not predict the triumph of liberal religion...
That is from the excellent Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter , by Geordie Greig.
The authors are Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, and the subtitle is Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies .
That is from Mark Gerchick’s Full Upright and Locked Position: Not-so-Comfortable Truths about Air Travel Today , a pretty good book although much of the material may be already known to some of the potential readers.
5. Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin, The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals . Self-explanatory.
4. Samuel Scheffler, Death & the Afterlife , with commentaries from other famous philosophers at the back. The bottom line: through the careful use of thought experiments, we can infer that we care about the impersonal future more than we might think. Scheffler is still getting better and deeper as a philosopher. This Thomas Nagel review of the book is gated, but even the first few (ungated) paragraphs are worth reading.
3. Drew Daniel, 20 Jazz Funk Greats , in the 33 1/3 series. On the Throbbing Gristle album of the same name, this superb book is one of the best and most instructive pieces of popular music criticism I have read, ever. I recommend reading it while listening to the album, song by song. Drew Daniel by the way is part of the group Matmos (interesting in their own right) and an English professor at Johns Hopkins . He deserves something better than tenure.
3. Drew Daniel, 20 Jazz Funk Greats , in the 33 1/3 series. On the Throbbing Gristle album of the same name, this superb book is one of the best and most instructive pieces of popular music criticism I have read, ever. I recommend reading it while listening to the album, song by song. Drew Daniel by the way is part of the group Matmos (interesting in their own right) and an English professor at Johns Hopkins . He deserves something better than tenure.
2. Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life . This book made many UK “best of” lists. It is subtle, like the author herself, and will prompt you to further reading or rereads, for instance I enjoyed The Gate of Angels right after this biography and soon will try Offshore .
2. Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life . This book made many UK “best of” lists. It is subtle, like the author herself, and will prompt you to further reading or rereads, for instance I enjoyed The Gate of Angels right after this biography and soon will try Offshore .
2. Hermione Lee, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life . This book made many UK “best of” lists. It is subtle, like the author herself, and will prompt you to further reading or rereads, for instance I enjoyed The Gate of Angels right after this biography and soon will try Offshore .
6. John Limbert, Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History . Four detailed case studies of past failures and successes negotiating with Iran, from a scholar who knows his topic very well and can write clearly.
5. Pete Earley, Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War . A fun look at the Russian spy world behind “ The Americans ” (TV show), also with a fascinating discussion of the KGB in Ottawa spying on the Canadians.
4. Lane Kenworthy, Social Democratic America , I will quote my blurb: “If you wish to read the case for a big increase in social welfare spending, this is the very best place to go.” Here is a related piece from the book .
3. Gary J. Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide . The story of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh-USA relations in the earlier 1970s and the conflict of that time, a very good book.
2. John Williams, Stoner . This is not quite the great lost American novel, as some critics are making it out to be. Nonetheless it is good, brisk, absorbing read about the horrible life of a stultified academic. First published in 1965.
1. M. John Harrison, Light . I thought I was sick of cyberpunk but this held my attention from the first page through the end. It falls in the category of “don’t worry if you don’t get everything that is going on, enjoy anyway.”
MRUniversity.com has a new class on Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order , free on-line pdf version of the book is here . The class is based around my reread of the book — often considered the single best introduction to Hayek — and what I learned from each chapter., whether positively or negatively.
3. The forthcoming Thomas Piketty book will be very important .