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Read: The power of fifty bits
The Praise. What happens when a practitioner writes about behavioral sciences’ insights and their applications? You get a refreshingly different perspective, refreshingly new examples for behavior...
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Read: The Darwin Economy
Frank’s The Darwin Economy leaves me torn inside. I agree with essentially everything that Frank proposes and how he justifies his prescriptions. Yet, I expected something very different.Of course I...
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Read: Are Markets Moral?
A complete waste of time.“Are Markets Moral?” is a transcript of a one day inter-disciplinary workshop on the question that is this book’s title.Presenters regurgitate ideas that they have presented...
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Read: The second machine age
Bought in 2014, right after it was published, I should have read it much earlier. OK, there are still plenty of other books on my to-read shelves that I got before 2012…Brynjolfsson and McAfee present...
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Read: Economics as Religion
Is economics a religion? Are economists secular priests? This is what Robert Nelson tries to convince us of. He fails.Nelson offers a unique history of modern economic thought or rather thinkers. The...
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Read: Sweetness and Power
I do not remember why or how I ended up on https://cs. brown.edu/~sk/Personal/Books/Mintz-Sweetness-Power/ where I read this:Read this book. The next time you visit a cafe and confront a choice...
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Read: Economics - The User's Guide
Chang’s Economics: The User’s Guide is less a guide to economics as it is practiced but more to an economics that should be: A pluralistic study of the economy, not one single approach to analyze...
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Read: Trekonomics
Post-scarcity is not just a recent idea, predicted in such work like The 2nd Machine Age as a result of the imminent and highly anticipated singularity, and it is not just the necessary condition for...
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Read: Success and Luck - Good fortune and the myth of meritocracy
While I agree with Frank’s policy recommendation and how he arrived at his conclusion I cannot honestly say I have enjoyed his recent Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.The...
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Read: How Numbers Rule the World
Disappointing.How Numbers Rule The World is mostly not about the use and abuse of statistics in global politics as promised on the book’s cover. The lack of good, appropriate statistics, the...
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