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Tuesday, February 24

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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