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By Robert Hetzel, market monetarist, now out , I very much liked the draft I read. For the pointer I thank David Levey.
About An Economist Gets Lunch , you will find it here .
Our goal is to propose an alternative vision for what OWS should focus on. You can buy the book here .
The author is Michael Huberman and the subtitle is International Trade and Labor Standards in History . Here is the blurb from Leandro Prados de La Escosura:
The author is Michael Lind and the subtitle is An Economic History of the United States . I am just beginning to browse my copy, here is one bit:
By Paul Seabright, Amazon link here , it arrived yesterday on my doorstep and is due out April 29. The subtitle is How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present .
The author is Ross Douthat and the subtitle is How We Became a Nation of Heretics . It is a very good and very serious book arguing that America needs better religious thinking and practice, excerpt:
Can they not publish a “Director’s Cut” eBook? The Power Broker , by the way, is in my view one of the best non-fiction books ever, so read it if you don’t already know it.
You can order the book on Amazon here . For Barnes & Noble here . For Indiebound.org here .
You can pre-order the book on Amazon here . For Barnes & Noble here . For Indiebound.org here .
You can pre-order the book on Amazon here . For Barnes & Noble here . For Indiebound.org here .
5. India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy , by Ramachandra Guha. Both informationally dense and conceptual, in a good way.
4. Free Market Fairness , by John Tomasi. Here is Matt on the book : “Without being by any means a libertarian, I do think that people of a left-wing orientation sometimes give short shrift to the non-pecuniary aspects of economic freedom. Whether or not you buy that barber licensing rules are a big deal economically, the specter of the government throwing a person in jail for participating in an exchange of haircuts for money between consenting adults should bother liberally inclined people fo...
3. Lifeboat: A Novel , by Charlotte Rogan. A genuinely gripping story of a bunch of people in a sinking lifeboat, facing the usual philosophical dilemmas. Maybe that doesn’t sound thrilling, but I pressed on eagerly and read it to the end.
2.Robert J. Sampson, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect . I’m still grappling with this book, which I find difficult to parse. It’s a very detailed empirical study of the strength of neighborhood effects, with reference to Chicago. I thought I would give the book its own post, but it is difficult to excerpt. I don’t quite understand how he distinguishes neighborhood effects from selection effects, though I have read his discussion that selection effects are the...
1. Barb Stuckey, Taste: What You’re Missing: The Passionate Eater’s Guide to Why Good Food Tastes Good . A very good and interesting look at how and why food tastes as it does, from a professional food developer.
You can pre-order the book on Amazon here . For Barnes & Noble here . For Indiebound.org here . It is due out tomorrow.
Chris Mooney, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality .
Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles .
Carl H. Nightingale, Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities .
Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent , by Edward Luce. Here is his recent essay , related to the book.
Jonathan Schlefer, The Assumptions Economists Make .
With Ning Wang, it is called How China Became Capitalist , due out later in April.
You can pre-order the book on Amazon here . For Barnes & Noble here . For Indiebound.org here . It is due out April 12.
And my favorite reading of all is the unabridged Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson . It’s my favorite thing because it’s interesting and has no import or forward narrative momentum. So you’re interested and edified but it doesn’t keep you up at night.