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Friday, July 31
Economists need holidays
by
DianeC
on Fri 31 Jul 2009 18:47 BST
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
DianeC
on Fri 31 Jul 2009 18:44 BST
Mobile Communication by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner was a bit of a disappointment to me. I always pounce on ... more »
Thursday, July 30
Complexity
by
DianeC
on Thu 30 Jul 2009 09:20 BST
Here's a link to a review of Complexity, a new overview of the field of complex systems by Melanie ... more »
Wednesday, July 29
Mark Twain's Sense of Honour
by
DianeC
on Wed 29 Jul 2009 13:10 BST
Charles Murray has written a marvellously trenchant column about the lack of a sense of duty in our times, particularly ... more »
Saturday, July 25
Economic Justice in an Unfair World
by
DianeC
on Sat 25 Jul 2009 22:01 BST
The title of Ethan Kapstein's book, Economic Justice in an Unfair World, for a wild moment made me hope ... more »
Monday, July 20
Picturing the Uncertain World
by
DianeC
on Mon 20 Jul 2009 09:56 BST
This marvellous book by Howard Wainer, Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display... more »
Tuesday, July 14
Monday, July 13
Africa by Richard Dowden
by
DianeC
on Mon 13 Jul 2009 22:19 BST
There are many books about Africa, and I seem to have read a lot of them. Richard Dowden's Africa: Altered ... more »
Sunday, July 12
Tuesday, July 7
The Enlightened Economy
by
DianeC
on Tue 07 Jul 2009 20:42 BST
It's rare for me to plug a book I haven't read, but how could I resist doing so for The ... more »
Monday, July 6
Scholarly publishing
by
DianeC
on Mon 06 Jul 2009 09:16 BST
A quick post to point readers to a great article, A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing, in the Chronicle of ... more »
Friday, July 3
Measuring America
by
DianeC
on Fri 03 Jul 2009 10:28 BST
It's not clear how to categorize Measuring America by Andro Linklater, but wherever it falls, it's a marvellous book.
It's ... more » Monday, June 29
Walter Lippmann on Liberty and the News
by
DianeC
on Mon 29 Jun 2009 17:21 BST
Over the weekend I read the 1920 essays Liberty and The News (reissued recently) in which Walter Lippmann trails the ... more »
Wednesday, June 24
Portfolios of the Poor
by
DianeC
on Wed 24 Jun 2009 18:25 BST
Portfolios of the Poor (by Daryl Collins and three co-authors) is a masterly assessment of the financial needs of people ... more »
Tuesday, June 23
Guest review by Dave Birch of The Frozen Trade
by
DianeC
on Tue 23 Jun 2009 21:53 BST
The Frozen Trade by Gavin Weightman
HarperCollins (2003) I happened to be reading William Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade... more » Monday, June 22
Saturday, June 20
MIT Press Fall 2009 catalog
by
DianeC
on Sat 20 Jun 2009 21:57 BST
The MIT Press catalog for Fall 2009 is available now. The title that leapt out for me is Erik Brynjolfsson ... more »
Friday, June 19
Blueprint for a Safer Planet
by
DianeC
on Fri 19 Jun 2009 14:56 BST
I've almost finished Nicholas Stern's Blueprint for a Safer Planet, his (relatively) popular version of the Stern Review of ... more »
Tuesday, June 16
Series of Ascent of Money going out on PBS
by
DianeC
on Tue 16 Jun 2009 09:52 BST
Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money was essentially written pre-crash but even so the grand historical sweep provides great background ... more »
Monday, June 15
Fool's Gold follow up
by
DianeC
on Mon 15 Jun 2009 11:39 BST
After posting on Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold, I chanced upon this article on
the Wharton website pinpointing the same kinds ... more »
Sunday, June 14
Fool's Gold
by
DianeC
on Sun 14 Jun 2009 21:53 BST
One of my holiday reads (at the serious end of the spectrum) was Fool's Gold by Gillian Tett. It's an ... more »
Saturday, June 6
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
by
DianeC
on Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:03 BST
This is the title of the new book by Professor Robert Allen of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a fascinating assessment ... more »
Thursday, June 4
Moral monkeys
by
DianeC
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 18:06 BST
I've just read a fascinating essay by primatologist Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers. (It's the Archbishop of Canterbury ... more »
Bookselling and Nudges
by
DianeC
on Thu 04 Jun 2009 09:05 BST
No doubt there are 'nudges', to use the term for psychological tricks to guide behaviour popularised by Richard Thaler and ... more »
Monday, June 1
Saturday, May 30
Tuesday, May 26
Friday, May 22
Wednesday, May 20
The Open Book model
by
DianeC
on Wed 20 May 2009 09:10 BST
Since my first post on Open Book Publishers, a new Cambridge-base academic press, I've had chance to speak to ... more »
Monday, May 18
Grids and life
by
DianeC
on Mon 18 May 2009 09:22 BST
This weekend I finished the intriguing The Grid Book by Hannah Higgins. This Univ of Illinois at Chicago art historian ... more »
Sunday, May 17
The book business
by
DianeC
on Sun 17 May 2009 18:02 BST
I was interested in this article on the health or otherwise of the publishing of serious non-fiction, in this weekend's ... more »
Friday, May 15
Economics of health
by
DianeC
on Fri 15 May 2009 18:08 BST
The always-excellent Boston Review has a great article on the economics of healthcare by Dean Baker. It's essentially about the ... more »
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