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3. Director : After Cronenberg there is James Cameron, hate me if you want but I find his movies splendid. Sarah Polley remains underrated in the United States, start with Away From Her , another of my all-time favorites.
2. Movie, set in : Dead Ringers , by David Cronenberg, one of my favorite films period.
1. Short story author : Alice Munro I consider one of the very best writers ever, from anywhere or any period. Read them all, and there is a new collection coming this November . Here is one place to start .
1. Short story author : Alice Munro I consider one of the very best writers ever, from anywhere or any period. Read them all, and there is a new collection coming this November . Here is one place to start .
Perhaps “In a Landscape,” on this CD .
That is from Jayeeta Sharma’s Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India , a book which I am finding very useful for background on current troubles concerning Assam.
The article is interesting throughout. The new Hanna Rosin book is here .
Edited by John B. Taylor, Lee E. Ohanian, and Ian J. Wright, Amazon link here . For the pointer I thank Rich Berger.
Richard Caves collects Picasso, Bill Landes collects Charles Burchfield, and William Baumol did a good deal of wood sculpture, but I do not know that any of them have served as patrons of living artists. Assar Lindbeck also works as a painter , as does Robert Mundell. Spencer MacCallum (not an economist but he has written on economic issues) has been an important patron and promoter of Mexican pottery , and my own patronage efforts in Mexico are discussed in my book on the economics of Mexican...
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.