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Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System .
The author is Laurence C. Smith and the subtitle is Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future .
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
That brings us to about $68. For the rest I would draw from Dvorak's New World Symphony , Schubert ( Symphony 9 or Trout Quintet , with superb pairings on both CDs), assorted Chopin , Beethoven piano sonatas , or Monteverdi , or Philip Glass Songs from the Trilogy . In general, try whichever pieces might have personal meaning to you; for instance if you liked the movie Black Swan , buy Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (by either Previn or Pletnev) I've focused on the most accessible pieces, but if you w...
5. Mozart, symphonies 40 and 41 and other late symphonies , $15.
3. Glenn Gould, both sets of the Goldberg Variations, $13 .
2. The Bach Brandenburg Concerti; the Pinnock set is basically $20 with the Suites thrown in. Or get the Alessandrini set for $26 .
2. The Bach Brandenburg Concerti; the Pinnock set is basically $20 with the Suites thrown in. Or get the Alessandrini set for $26 .
1. Start with a box of the Beethoven symphonies, either Gardiner or van Karajan cost only $20. (For $43 the Klemperer set offers the piano concerti as well.)
1. Start with a box of the Beethoven symphonies, either Gardiner or van Karajan cost only $20. (For $43 the Klemperer set offers the piano concerti as well.)
1. Start with a box of the Beethoven symphonies, either Gardiner or van Karajan cost only $20. (For $43 the Klemperer set offers the piano concerti as well.)
Chug refers me to this new book . A few of the ideas are:
I am reminded of Paul Cantor on Thomas Mann on hyperinflation . Specialists may wish to consult Friedrich Achberger, "Die Inflation und die zeitgenossische Literatur," in Aufbruch und Untergang: Osterreichische Kulturzwischen 1918-1938, Franz Kadrnoska, ed. (Vienna: Europa, 1981), pp. 29-42; there are monetary policy themes in Musil, Zweig, and Broch, among others. Hans Fallada too . Is there a monetary theme in H.G. Wells's The Last War ?; Wells was a follower of Frederick Soddy. How about f...
"It’s too bad ' You Shall Know Our Velocity ' isn’t a novel about monetary policy."
6. Here is the major paper on economics and mental health . Here is a collection on the same topic , by the same authors.
By Diane Coyle, the home page is here and the Amazon page is here . This book arrived just before leaving town and so I have not read it yet…
Due out in April .
The author is Sue Fishkoff and the subtitle is Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority . This late arrival is one of my favorite non-fiction books of the year, superb both on its topic and on the history and economics of certification more generally. Here is one excerpt: