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Saturday, February 27
View Article  More on Google
by DianeC on Sat 27 Feb 2010 18:16 GMT
The weekend review sections have brought more on the books in general and the Google Books Settlement in particular.

In ...   more »
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Wednesday, February 24
View Article  Lords of Finance
by DianeC on Wed 24 Feb 2010 17:52 GMT
The 1920s and 1930s seem by far the most appropriate period in history to offer lessons about the state of ...   more »
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Tuesday, February 23
View Article  New online retailer
by DianeC on Tue 23 Feb 2010 09:05 GMT
It's traditional to be gloomy about book retailing, and the closure of Borders in the UK recently, another casualty of ...   more »
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Monday, February 22
View Article  The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics - a guest review
by DianeC on Mon 22 Feb 2010 09:59 GMT

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: ...   more »

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Sunday, February 21
View Article  The current in-pile
by DianeC on Sun 21 Feb 2010 11:09 GMT
The combination of a recent birthday, half term holidays and a chunky book (Liaquat Ahmed's Lords of Finance) on ...   more »
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Thursday, February 18
View Article  Competition in European Banking
by DianeC on Thu 18 Feb 2010 17:50 GMT
Time for a bit of self-promotion (not to mention my distinguished co-authors). Our report on competition in European banking, post-bailouts, ...   more »
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View Article  New blog on authors' campaign
by DianeC on Thu 18 Feb 2010 17:31 GMT
The campaign by a group of UK authors against the Google Books Settlement is moving into top gear and has ...   more »
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Tuesday, February 16
View Article  Derivatives in Plain Words
by DianeC on Tue 16 Feb 2010 09:23 GMT
On my shelves is a little book called Derivatives in Plain Words, published in 1997 by the Hong Kong ...   more »
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Monday, February 15
View Article  Google Books settlement - who opted out?
by DianeC on Mon 15 Feb 2010 10:55 GMT
The list of authors who opted out of the Google Books Settlement has been published, as Annex C of this ...   more »
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View Article  The Science of Liberty
by DianeC on Mon 15 Feb 2010 10:29 GMT
The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris was favourably reviewed in the New York Times. I haven't read it but ...   more »
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View Article  Free book on public value!
by DianeC on Mon 15 Feb 2010 10:16 GMT
Interested in the use of public value as a process for getting better outcomes in public services? My book Public ...   more »
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Saturday, February 13
View Article  Whoops!
by DianeC on Sat 13 Feb 2010 13:59 GMT
The novelist John Lanchester has written one of the best books I've read on the financial crisis (although I haven't ...   more »
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Tuesday, February 9
View Article  Electronic books
by DianeC on Tue 09 Feb 2010 09:08 GMT
There's a thorough and interesting analysis in this morning's Financial Times of the future of publishing in a world of ...   more »
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Monday, February 8
View Article  Identity Economics
by DianeC on Mon 08 Feb 2010 17:28 GMT
An intriguing new title has arrived in the post. It's Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. Professor Akerlof ...   more »
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Saturday, February 6
View Article  Brian Arthur's The Nature of Technology
by DianeC on Sat 06 Feb 2010 13:49 GMT
Brian Arthur has many fans amongst the kinds of economist, once considered outlandish but increasingly rather mainstream, who think about ...   more »
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Tuesday, February 2
View Article  The Politics of Happiness
by DianeC on Tue 02 Feb 2010 10:45 GMT
It didn't take much for Derek Bok's new book The Politics of Happiness to have me spluttering with annoyance. It's ...   more »
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Monday, February 1
View Article  Whoops!
by DianeC on Mon 01 Feb 2010 13:17 GMT
I spotted John Lanchester's excellent articles about the financial crisis when they were first published. He seemed to combine a ...   more »
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