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For the pointer to the book — now out early on Kindle — I thank David Gordon .
There is also Diane Coyle, editor, What’s the use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis .
Justin Yifu Lin, The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off .
That is from the recent book by Edward Humes, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash .
The author is Odd Arne Westad and the subtitle is China and the World Since 1750 . Excerpt:
The authors are Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell, and the subtitle is Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left . I agree with many of the particular claims in this book, and also I find those undervalued in broader intellectual discourse. Nonetheless I am struck by a mismatch between the book’s message and some of its tone, as well as the sense that one side should be singled out for condemnation (the same point can be made about left-wing books on related topics).
6. Martin B. Gold, Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History .
5. Evan F. Koenig, Robert Leeson, and George A. Kahn, editors, The Taylor Rule and the Transformation of Monetary Policy .
4. David R. Montgomery, The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood .
3. Barry Cunliffe, Britain Begins .
2. Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD .
1. Nicolai Foss and Peter Klein, Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment: A New Approach to the Firm .
That is the new and forthcoming book by Harold James , from the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. If you want a history of ideas and proposals for European monetary union, including the political battles, dating back to Napoleonic times and running up through the EMS crises, using plenty of archival material, this is the place to go.
It is from The New York Times Book Review , and it covers Michael J. Casey’ s The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System destroys the Middle Class , and Daniel Gross’s Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline…and the Rise of a New Economy . My bottom line:
It is from The New York Times Book Review , and it covers Michael J. Casey’ s The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System destroys the Middle Class , and Daniel Gross’s Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline…and the Rise of a New Economy . My bottom line:
That is from the interesting and provocative Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines , by Richard A. Muller.
That is the new book about ARRA and fiscal stimulus, by Michael Grunwald, available here with the subtitle The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. Excerpt:
The new book by Brink Lindsey is out, namely Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth has Made us Smarter — and More Unequal . I am a big fan of Brink’s and of the book.
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln . I should teach it next year for my Law and Literature class…
That is the forthcoming book by Barry Eichengreen, Dwight Perkins, and Kwanho Shin . I just pre-ordered my copy to arrive in October…
5. Free new chapter from Tim Harford’s The Undercover Economist , the full book is here .
The author is Ryan Holiday and the subtitle is Confessions of a Media Manipulator . Anyone interested in the economics of blogs or new media should read this book, replete with and indeed emphasizing seamy tales of manipulation, etc. Think of it as Upton Sinclair on the blogosphere, and you will even find an anecdote about Marginal Revolution.
5. New Fuchsia Dunlop cookbook due February 2013 , pre-order here .
That is from David Wessel’s Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget , which I enjoyed very much.
11. Best book about Chinese fiction : Sabina Knight, Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction . This short book is a marvel of economy, substance, and style.