Recently Mentioned Books

The story is here . Will Koenig writes to me:

That is the new book from my colleague Peter Boettke, and the subtitle is Economics Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow .  Of all of his books, it best captures what Peter is all about.  He should now be considered the global leader of the Austrian School of Economics.  Here is a Jeff Tucker review of the book .

2. My favorite Desmond Dekker compilation , and the fiscal effects of the Federal Reserve (significant).

I very much enjoyed Josh’s new food book The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food , and I can recommend it for its pro-science stance, its interesting speculations, and its excellent reporting.  My prediction, by the way, based on demographics, is that the next big food trend will be more from the Latino cuisines, fused with American ideas to appeal to the (North) American palate.  Chipotle is but one step in this direction.  Sadly, in my view most Americans have room for only a...

Here is more , and for the pointer I thank Bruce Bartlett.  Once again, here is Bruce’s new book on taxation .

Recommended, you can buy it here .

Steven E. Landsburg, The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life , revised and updated for the 21st century.

Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs .

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.