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3. Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back . An important book in cultural economics, this clear, energetically written tract is perhaps the best critique of where our culture is at today. It’s about parasitism more generally, not just copyright violation. Everyone who follows cultural economics should read this book.
1. Habibi , by Craig Thompson. I don’t enjoy most graphic novels, but this is my favorite of the ones I’ve read.
The author is Jacques Pepin and this is a splendid book . It is a remarkably thorough epidemiological detective story, which breaks new ground, and on top of that it serves up an excellent (partial) history of Zaire, history of the African sex trade, and history of Haiti. Excerpt:
That is from the new and interesting book Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia , by Thant Myint-U.
3. Haruki Murakami, IQ84 . I haven’t finished it yet, but I feel confident putting it on the list (I’m about one-third through). I even agree with many of the reservations expressed in this review but the book is nonetheless a major achievement. There are dozens of reviews here .
2. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs , interesting on every page and lives up to the hype. Here is a good review by Michael Rosenwald .
1. Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined . My review is here .
That book is from Belknap; Oxford University Press sent me a new short book by Allan H. Meltzer, Why Capitalism? Thomas Hazlett’s new, short The Fallacy of Net Neutrality is a clear take in line with its title. Also noteworthy is Richard B. McKenzie’s new Heavy! The Surprising Reasons America is the Land of the Free — and the Home of the Fat .
That book is from Belknap; Oxford University Press sent me a new short book by Allan H. Meltzer, Why Capitalism? Thomas Hazlett’s new, short The Fallacy of Net Neutrality is a clear take in line with its title. Also noteworthy is Richard B. McKenzie’s new Heavy! The Surprising Reasons America is the Land of the Free — and the Home of the Fat .
That book is from Belknap; Oxford University Press sent me a new short book by Allan H. Meltzer, Why Capitalism? Thomas Hazlett’s new, short The Fallacy of Net Neutrality is a clear take in line with its title. Also noteworthy is Richard B. McKenzie’s new Heavy! The Surprising Reasons America is the Land of the Free — and the Home of the Fat .
That is the new book by Sean McMeekin ; I enjoyed it and found this passage striking:
Scarlatti, volume I , by Carlo Grante (the most significant achievement), Diabelli Variations by Paul Lewis , Bach’s Trio Sonatas for Organ by Robert Quinney (probably my favorite of the entire year), and Shostakovich Symphony #10 , by Vasily Petrenko.
Scarlatti, volume I , by Carlo Grante (the most significant achievement), Diabelli Variations by Paul Lewis , Bach’s Trio Sonatas for Organ by Robert Quinney (probably my favorite of the entire year), and Shostakovich Symphony #10 , by Vasily Petrenko.
Scarlatti, volume I , by Carlo Grante (the most significant achievement), Diabelli Variations by Paul Lewis , Bach’s Trio Sonatas for Organ by Robert Quinney (probably my favorite of the entire year), and Shostakovich Symphony #10 , by Vasily Petrenko.
Scarlatti, volume I , by Carlo Grante (the most significant achievement), Diabelli Variations by Paul Lewis , Bach’s Trio Sonatas for Organ by Robert Quinney (probably my favorite of the entire year), and Shostakovich Symphony #10 , by Vasily Petrenko.
3. Claude Frank: 85th Birthday Celebration .
1. James Willey, String Quartets, 3, 7, and 8 , Esterhazy Quartet.
That is the new Jeffrey Sachs book, with the subtitle Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity . Here is one excerpt:
5. Arnold Kling has a very good blog post explaining the importance of the new book The Race Against the Machine .
This is an excellent conceptual book on the financial crisis, full of deep research and intellectual honesty. The authors, Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus, are not in the usual loops of the economist elite, so I hope it is not ignored. They place central importance on the Basel capital regulations and mark-to-market accounting, complemented by a credit channel, in their narrative. Arnold Kling has much more on the book . You can buy the book here ; anyone interested in the financial cris...
A good introduction to the bright side of Italy’s economy is Michael Porter’s 1998 The Competitive Advantage of Nations ; Porter portrays Italy as having some vital clusters of family-owned businesses, largely in the North. Do you want your kitchen redone with some nice marble tile? Italy can supply just the right stuff. This neat graph shows just how much Italy has specialized in small business.
5. Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Self-Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life . Brilliant, insightful, with occasional lapses of taste, quintessential Trivers, now the go-to book on its topic, recommended.
4. Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science . The best book on the potential for open, networked science, looking forward. Joshua Gans on the book here and here , the latter having a link to Michael’s TEDx talk.
3. Ladies of Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History , by John Blundell. Biographical sketches of libertarian and libertarian-themed women in U.S. history. Includes Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Patterson, Rose Friedman, Jane Jacobs, others.
2. By page 200 I got bored of the new Eugenides novel. The Barbarian Nurseries reaps high praise and is well-written but it feels too ordinary for me.