http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog A blog about economics books en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:16 +0000 Main Page Blogware DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/12/4478603.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/12/4478603.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:51:00 +0000 <font size="3"><a style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff is essentially a book about ... Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/11/4477467.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/11/4477467.html Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:42:00 +0000 My good friends at Princeton University Press have sent me what looks like a fascinating book, <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9010.html">Codes of the Underworld... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/9/4475613.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/9/4475613.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:33:00 +0000 The ever-excellent <a href="http://bostonreview.net/about/">Boston Review</a> has in its current issue an <a href="http://bostonreview.net/BR35.2/ndf_regulation.php">essay on this subject by Eliot Spitzer</a>, with a ... 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Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/6/4473417.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/6/4473417.html Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:42:00 +0000 I read <a href="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/HB-46620/Beyond-Business.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">Beyond Business</span></a>, the autobiography by the former CEO of BP, alongside the frank diaries of the Labour ... Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/3/4471150.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/3/3/4471150.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:28:00 +0000 Earlier this week I heard <a href="http://www.pearson.com/about-us/management-team/?i=240">John Makinson</a>, the Chief Executive of Penguin, speak on the future of publishing at ... Main Page PublisherInterview DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/27/4467824.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/27/4467824.html Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:16:00 +0000 The weekend review sections have brought more on the books in general and the Google Books Settlement in particular. <br><br>In ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/24/4464967.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/24/4464967.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:52:00 +0000 The 1920s and 1930s seem by far the most appropriate period in history to offer lessons about the state of ... Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/23/4463618.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/23/4463618.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:05:00 +0000 It's traditional to be gloomy about book retailing, and the closure of Borders in the UK recently, another casualty of ... 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Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/21/4461802.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/21/4461802.html Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:09:00 +0000 The combination of a recent birthday, half term holidays and a chunky book (Liaquat Ahmed's <a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=74XNzF_al3MC&amp;dq=liaquat+ahamed+lords+of+finance&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=KRKt3XI6ZO&amp;sig=YB-_OLZ6el5SgxdgzuyRUaO-RqY&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=shOBS_qmOcWOjAfi3fjHBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CBIQ6AEwAQ">Lords of Finance</a>) on ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/18/4459485.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/18/4459485.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:50:00 +0000 Time for a bit of self-promotion (not to mention my distinguished co-authors). Our report on competition in European banking, post-bailouts, ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/18/4459470.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/18/4459470.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:31:00 +0000 The campaign by a group of UK authors against the Google Books Settlement is moving into top gear and has ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/16/4457299.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/16/4457299.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:23:00 +0000 On my shelves is a little book called <span style="font-style: italic;">Derivatives in Plain Words</span>, published in 1997 by the Hong Kong ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456455.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456455.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:55:00 +0000 The list of authors who opted out of the Google Books Settlement has been published, as <a href="http://thepublicindex.org/docs/amended_settlement/Allen_declaration2.pdf">Annex C of this ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456432.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456432.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:29:00 +0000 <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060781507/The_Science_of_Liberty/index.aspx">The Science of Liberty</a> by Timothy Ferris was favourably<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rosen-t.html?ref=review&amp;pagewanted=all"> reviewed in the New York Times.</a> I haven't read it but ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456418.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/15/4456418.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:16:00 +0000 Interested in the use of public value as a process for getting better outcomes in public services? My book <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/pvt/public_value_practice.pdf">Public ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/13/4454915.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/13/4454915.html Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0000 The novelist John Lanchester has written one of the best books I've read on the financial crisis (although I haven't ... Main Page Review DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/9/4451178.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/9/4451178.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:08:00 +0000 There's a thorough and interesting <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1aca5734-14fe-11df-ad58-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1">analysis in this morning's </a><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1aca5734-14fe-11df-ad58-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1">Financial Times</a> </span>of the future of publishing in a world of ... Main Page DianeC http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/8/4450574.html http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/8/4450574.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:28:00 +0000 An intriguing new title has arrived in the post. It's<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9108.html"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Identity Economics</span></a> by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. Professor Akerlof ... 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