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April 24, 2008

Riding Tigers by James Schneider: The Best 21st Century Novel You Haven't Read



James Schneider, my best friend from Princeton, has written my favorite novel of the 21st century, entitled Riding Tigers. I'd......MORE

April 22, 2008

Peasants vs. Nomads



I review Philip Carl Salzman's Culture and Conflict in the Middle East. I write, Salzman sees differences between growing crops......MORE

April 16, 2008

Childlessness and Regret



I just finished Sylvia Ann Hewlett's fantastic Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children (used copies on......MORE

April 16, 2008

Book Club Worthy



On page 139 of Second Nature, Haim Ofek writes, In close analogy with the female role in sex selection, customers......MORE

April 14, 2008

What I'm Reading (Slowly)



Second Nature, by Haim Ofek. It was written in 2001. It tries to address some puzzles in evolution and in......MORE

April 8, 2008

Blogs and Books



Suppose you're writing a popular book. You expect to finish in two years. Your goal is to maximize sales of......MORE

March 24, 2008

The Paperback Arrives



Crisis of Abundance is now in paperback, for ten bucks at Amazon. The fact that Peter Orszag, no ideological fellow-traveler......MORE

March 23, 2008

On the "to be read" list



Murat Iyigun says he cannot wait to get his hands on Joel Mokyr's forthcoming book, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic......MORE

March 11, 2008

My Review of Gregory Clark



Is on the Claremont Review web site (it did not make the dead-tree publication). How is it that in the......MORE

February 29, 2008

The Strangest Review of My Book... from Shanghai



Shanghai Daily takes the prize for the strangest review of my book:True, economics is about profit maximization, and when this......MORE

February 19, 2008

Yet More Economic History



A representative sentence from John Darwin's history of the world since 1400, After Tamerlane (p. 305). The steamship and railway......MORE

February 11, 2008

The Most Memorable Passage in The Nurture Assumption



If you haven't read The Nurture Assumption by Judith Harris, you simply must. Years later, this paragraph is still with......MORE

February 8, 2008

Another Surprising Gintis Review



Herbert Gintis already wrote a surprisingly critical review of Krugman's last book; now he's written a glowing review of Thomas......MORE

February 3, 2008

Great Graphic Novels I've Been Reading



Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, two autobiographical books by Guy Delisle. Pyongyang will......MORE

February 2, 2008

If You Want Peace, Work for ???: Part 2



Alan Krueger's book tests the popular story that poverty is the root cause of terrorism. Macedonia: What Does It Take......MORE

February 2, 2008

If You Want Peace, Work for ???: Part 1



How many times have you seen the bumper sticker "If you want peace, work for justice"? And what do you......MORE

January 31, 2008

Arnold on Atlas: Where's He Right, Where He's Wrong



Arnold has just read my favorite novel. Here's my reaction to his reaction:What I like is the "in your face"......MORE

January 30, 2008

Two Dismal Books



Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand and The Dismal Science by Stephen Marglin......MORE

January 23, 2008

Harford Book Forum at Marginal Revolution



Today I kick off Marginal Revolution's Book Forum on Tim Harford's new The Logic of Life. It's a great book,......MORE

January 23, 2008

Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism



My review of the book is here. I would argue that it is many books, written by an author with......MORE


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