This blog will be taking a two-week vacation. I will, however, be spending part of it reading economics books and ...   more »

Mobile Communication by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner was a bit of a disappointment to me. I always pounce on ...   more »

Here's a link to a review of Complexity, a new overview of the field of complex systems by Melanie ...   more »

Charles Murray has written a marvellously trenchant column about the lack of a sense of duty in our times, particularly ...   more »

The title of Ethan Kapstein's book, Economic Justice in an Unfair World, for a wild moment made me hope ...   more »

This marvellous book by Howard Wainer, Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display...   more »

I neglected to review this great book about the luminaries of Enlightenment science and literature when I read it. Dava ...   more »

There are many books about Africa, and I seem to have read a lot of them. Richard Dowden's Africa: Altered ...   more »

Paul Collier's last book but one, The Bottom Billion, is one of the more thoughtful books I've read on ...   more »

It's rare for me to plug a book I haven't read, but how could I resist doing so for The ...   more »

A quick post to point readers to a great article, A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing, in the Chronicle of ...   more »

It's not clear how to categorize Measuring America by Andro Linklater, but wherever it falls, it's a marvellous book.

It's ...   more »