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View Article  Amartya Sen's book on justice
Here's a review from the Chronicle of Higher Education of Amartya Sen's book - reviewed here recently. An interesting article ...   more »
View Article  Google books deal again
Now the US Justice Department has filed an objection to the Google books deal with the court, on anti-trust grounds. ...   more »
View Article  Pirates
There's a very enjoyable review of three new books about pirates in the New Yorker. I particularly enjoyed this description ...   more »
View Article  Why do poor people pay exorbitant rates of interest?
I found this post on Chris Blattman's blog about a recent paper by Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan looking at ...   more »
View Article  In the Saturday papers - Jane Jacobs and Google Books
The Guardian Review has an interesting feature today on Jane Jacobs. It focuses on her book The Death and Life ...   more »
View Article  Books at the Global Economic Symposium
This week I spent a couple of days at the Global Economic Symposium in Ploen, Schleswig-Holstein, a thinking person's Davos. ...   more »
View Article  The Google Book Settlement and European authors
Today's FT reports that the German government has lodged its opposition to the deal between Google and US publishers, and ...   more »