Recently Mentioned Books
Showing 25 of 6845 mentions, ordered by most recent.
There is persistence to spending, although this study does not create a category for stimulus spending per se , however that concept might be defined. The work of Robert Higgs also provides a clear look at ratchet effects on government spending, control, and regulation, although Higgs focuses on war rather than spending. State governments also seem to exhibit a ratchet effect, whereby good times bring about permanently higher budgetary demands, if only through endowment effects, lock-in, and st...
Contemporary American fiction faces an ongoing problem of what to write about. Yuppie life in Brooklyn doesn’t have the gravitas, suburban ennui is long since overdone, and so much of American life — mostly for the better — doesn’t face serious moral choices. Sergio de la Pava has solved this problem by writing about the American legal system, set in New York City and with a Colombian immigrant public defender. At first I was skeptical but at page 256 (out of 678) it is still getting better....
The Righteous Mind: Why People are Divided by Religion and Politics .
4. Music : James Tenney , most of all his Postal Pieces .
The author is George Dyson and the subtitle is The Origins of the Digital Universe . It is a first-rate, splendid book, causing us to rethink the origins of computing systems, the connections between early computers and nuclear weapons systems, how to motivate geniuses, and also the career of John von Neumann. Here is one excerpt, I may be giving you more:
It is called Finance and the Good Society , you can buy it here . The book’s home page is here .
What is the most serious estimate of how much denser agglomeration — boosted by lower rents — would increase productivity? I do not take the urban wage premium as the correct measure here, since at the margin the extra worker currently does not move in. I would like to read a good study of this issue, which I have discussed with Ryan Avent as well.
Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place .
Diamond Mine , by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins,
The new eBook from Matt Yglesias is out today, I will likely read (and finish!) my copy tonight. Self-recommending, you can get one here .
The very good The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy , by my colleague Philip Auerswald, will be out very soon.
In my pile is Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (how many times has this book been written by now?), Kevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo, A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representation (philosophy of science), and Robert V. Dodge, Schelling’s Game Theory: How to Make Decisions .
In my pile is Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (how many times has this book been written by now?), Kevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo, A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representation (philosophy of science), and Robert V. Dodge, Schelling’s Game Theory: How to Make Decisions .
In my pile is Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (how many times has this book been written by now?), Kevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo, A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representation (philosophy of science), and Robert V. Dodge, Schelling’s Game Theory: How to Make Decisions .
David Wolman, The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers — and the Coming Cashless Society , an informed and well-written look at the continuing evolution of money.
Alan Peacock, Anxious to do Good: Learning to be an Economist the Hard Way , memoirs, gentlemanly not juicy.
David Tuckett, Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability , a behavioral/cognitive/neuro interpretation of the actions of four fund managers, as they related to the financial crisis.
Alasdair Roberts, America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837 , stronger on aftermath than causes.
Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace , very well written, not that much economics.
2. The new George Dyson book on the origins of the computer , I just bought mine here .
The new Bruce Bartlett book on taxes is out , I presume it is excellent. Here is his column on the Romney and Obama plans .
That is from Sinn’s new book The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming .
Really, find them here ! They promise me there will be plenty to come and soon. The blog is related to their very good forthcoming book Why Nations Fail . It is no exaggeration to place their work at the very very top of “institutional economics” in today’s profession. They are now in my RSS feed.
The author is David Hackett Fischer and the subtitle is A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States . Excerpt:
That is the new book by Andrei Shleifer , and it collects his major and very important writings on regulation and law and economics, many with notable co-authors. Some of these papers have been discussed previously on MarginalRevolution . If you wish to own those papers, this is your book.