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Tuesday, February 24
View Article  The International
by Diane on Tue 24 Feb 2009 16:50 GMT
It's a movie not a book, and needless to say not a completely accurate representation of the world of global ...   more »
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Saturday, February 21
View Article  John Kay on The Long and the Short of It
by Diane on Sat 21 Feb 2009 12:20 GMT
John Kay's latest book The Long and the Short of It has been very favourably reviewed (including by my BBC ...   more »
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Wednesday, February 18
View Article  Orwell again - a writer for our times?
by Diane on Wed 18 Feb 2009 12:59 GMT
He was spot on in his analysis of what foods people will buy when money is tight.   more »
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Tuesday, February 17
View Article  Another banking quotation
by Diane on Tue 17 Feb 2009 11:17 GMT
This one from Keynes: "It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to profess ...   more »
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Monday, February 16
View Article  The danger of organized money
by Diane on Mon 16 Feb 2009 21:14 GMT
Reading Paul Krugman's Conscience of a Liberal on the tube - yes, I know, two years late but he suffers ...   more »
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Saturday, February 14
View Article  New books on India
by Diane on Sat 14 Feb 2009 19:15 GMT
Following my earlier post asking about books on India, today's FT has a review by James Lamont, the S Asia ...   more »
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View Article  Enlightenment values and digitising books
by Diane on Sat 14 Feb 2009 19:11 GMT
A terrific article in the New York Review of Books/Guardian Review by Robert Darnton about the Enlightenment ideal of the ...   more »
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View Article  A Valentine special
by Diane on Sat 14 Feb 2009 19:08 GMT
Earlier this week I met the author of The Romantic Economist, Richard Bronk, over lunch at the London School of ...   more »
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Friday, February 13
View Article  Recipes for economists
by Diane on Fri 13 Feb 2009 11:17 GMT
A plug for my friend Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's new book, The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food, ...   more »
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View Article  From Tiktaalik to investment bankers - evolution and economics
by Diane on Fri 13 Feb 2009 10:01 GMT
In honour of Darwin's 200th birthday yesterday, this week I've been reading Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish (out now in ...   more »
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Wednesday, February 11
View Article  Surrounded by books
by Diane on Wed 11 Feb 2009 08:37 GMT
In the battle between meetings and reading, meetings are winning a temporary victory   more »
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Monday, February 9
View Article  Animal Spirits
by Diane on Mon 09 Feb 2009 22:12 GMT
A very exciting arrival in the post today - 'Animal Spirits', the new book by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller. ...   more »
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Sunday, February 8
View Article  The economics of bookselling
by Diane on Sun 08 Feb 2009 15:16 GMT
In 2006 I was a member of a Competition Commission inquiry which cleared the takeover of the UK bookstore chain ...   more »
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Thursday, February 5
View Article  Transatlantic Justice for John Rawls
by Diane on Thu 05 Feb 2009 17:34 GMT
There are various texts I read as a student 30 years ago (how can it be so long?) which I've ...   more »
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Tuesday, February 3
View Article  Mostly Harmless Econometrics
by Diane on Tue 03 Feb 2009 10:30 GMT
I'm halfway through this new book by Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke and thoroughly appreciating it. I was planning to ...   more »
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View Article  New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition
by Diane on Tue 03 Feb 2009 10:27 GMT
Steven Durlauf, one of the editors of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, was kind enough to talk to me ...   more »
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Monday, February 2
View Article  New books (4)
by Diane on Mon 02 Feb 2009 09:43 GMT
In this New Year preview of the publishers' catalogues, it's the turn of the Oxford University Press's highlights. Writing about ...   more »
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