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2007
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Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Gotz Aly Jan 2007
List: $32.50
448 pages
Metropolitan Books
| If you are looking for a context where the long-run Laffer Curve holds, you'll find it here.
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| 2006
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by Michael Crichton Nov 2006
 (17 reviews) List: $27.95
448 pages
HarperCollins
| Yes it is "writing-by-numbers," yes it is better than his recent work, but no, it is not nearly as good as Jurassic Park, Sphere (my favorite), Congo, or for that matter his book on Jasper Johns...The start is OK but it falls apart as it proceeds.
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Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market
by Katherine S. Newman Oct 2006
List: $35.00
432 pages
Harvard University Press
| examines the upward mobility of (some of) the working poor
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A Novel
by Richard Powers Oct 2006
 (13 reviews) List: $25.00
464 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
| A deserving winner of a National Book Award, plus I am interested in the neurology theme. I find many of Power's earlier books too intellectualized, but this one held my attention throughout.
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Why We Eat More Than We Think
by Brian Wansink Oct 2006
(7 reviews) List: $25.00
288 pages
Bantam Books
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How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
by David Gratzer Oct 2006
List: $25.95
325 pages
Encounter Books
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The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
by Rashid Khalidi Oct 2006
(5 reviews) List: $24.95
352 pages
Beacon Press
| Some of the apologetics and omissions really bugged me. But as to why the Palestinians failed to construct their own state -- before the creation of Israel -- I learned a great deal.
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Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic
by Ray Takeyh Oct 2006
List: $25.00
272 pages
Times Books
| A good implicit "public choice" treatment of how the different factions in the Iranian government fit together. Surprisingly readable.
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A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt,
Stephen J. Dubner Oct 2006
 (1196 reviews) List: $27.95
336 pages
William Morrow
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A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt Audio CD
Oct 2006
List: $34.95
HarperAudio
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by Matthew D. Adler,
Eric A. Posner Oct 2006
List: $49.95
256 pages
Harvard University Press
| There is not exactly a new thesis here, but it is the most intelligent discussion to date of the strengths and limits of cost-benefit analysis.
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Unmasking the Real Shakespeare
by Brenda James,
William Rubinstein Oct 2006
 (2 reviews) List: $26.95
400 pages
Regan Books
| The book's major claim is that Sir Henry Neville wrote the works of William Shakespeare.
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A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite Sep 2006
List: $30.00
416 pages
Knopf
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How the Emerging Neurosociety is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love
by Richard Restak Sep 2006
List: $23.00
272 pages
Harmony Books
| A good summary of a bunch of results I already knew, but a suitable introduction for most readers. It doesn't cover neuroeconomics.
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by Cormac Mccarthy Sep 2006
(121 reviews) List: $24.00
256 pages
Knopf
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by Richard Dawkins Sep 2006
(178 reviews) List: $27.00
416 pages
Houghton Mifflin
| This book didn't sway me one way or the other. And while I am not religious myself, I am suspicious of anti-religious tracts which do not recognize great profundity in the Bible. Furthermore, as Dawkins recognizes, civilization requires strong loyalties to abstract principles; I'm still waiting to see a list of the relevant contenders to choose the best.
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How We Became a Gourmet Nation
by David Kamp Sep 2006
(15 reviews) List: $26.00
416 pages
Broadway Books
| Terrible title, good content, awkward writing style, terrible font, little economics, still good for foodies but only for foodies.
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Evolution of a Game
by Michael Lewis Sep 2006
(22 reviews) List: $24.95
288 pages
W. W. Norton
| I loved Liar's Poker and Moneyball but this one did not grab me at all. I stopped. Perhaps the reader needs to love football.
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Urban Growth And the Environment
by Matthew E. Kahn Sep 2006
List: $18.95
160 pages
Brookings Institution Press
| a good and balanced treatment of the intersection between environmental and urban economics
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by Robert Ohsfeldt Aug 2006
(1 review) List: $25.00
180 pages
AEI Press
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How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers
by Gene Epstein Aug 2006
List: $24.95
246 pages
Wiley
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Un economista politicamente incorrecto explora el lado oculta de lo que nos afecta
by Steven D. Levitt,
Stephen J. Dubner Aug 2006
 (8 reviews) List: $18.00
237 pages
Ediciones B
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by Orhan Pamuk Jul 2006
(49 reviews) List: $14.95
480 pages
Vintage
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American Weddings And the Business of Tradition
by Vicki Howard Jun 2006
List: $34.95
306 pages
University of Pennsylvania Press
| Weddings have become big business; this book tells you how and why.
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Analysis and Evidence
Editors:
Roger D. Congleton,
Birgitta Swedenborg Jun 2006
List: $35.00
408 pages
The MIT Press
| This book offers the best minds in European public choice, Barry Weingast, and Roger.
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History, Geography, and Culture
Editor:
Franco Moretti May 2006
List: $99.50
928 pages
Princeton University Press
| this volume is a treasure trove of information about the history and early economics of the novel
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by Daniel Gilbert May 2006
(80 reviews) List: $24.95
304 pages
Knopf
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A Story of Economic Discovery
by David Warsh May 2006
(22 reviews) List: $27.95
320 pages
W. W. Norton
| While it pretends to focus on a single article -- Paul Romer's 1990 piece on endogenous growth -- the book is a tour de force through growth theory, the economics profession, the world of public intellectuals, and how science works.
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by Seth Roberts Apr 2006
(66 reviews) List: $19.95
208 pages
Putnam Adult
| Not really a diet, it's a method of suppressing appetite.
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The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
by Tyler Cowen Apr 2006
List: $27.95
206 pages
Princeton University Press
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A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan Apr 2006
(106 reviews) List: $26.95
464 pages
Penguin Press HC, The
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by Irene Nemirovsky Apr 2006
(70 reviews) List: $25.00
416 pages
Knopf
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Human Nature and Human Individuality
by Judith Rich Harris Feb 2006
(13 reviews) List: $26.95
352 pages
W. W. Norton
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American Tort Law on Trial
by Eric Helland,
Alexander Tabarrok Feb 2006
List: $15.95
150 pages
Independent Institute
| Alex says: This book brings together in a popular format much of my research from the past few years on the effect on tort awards of elected judges, jury composition and contingency fees as well as other topics.
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The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
by Reza Aslan Jan 2006
(62 reviews) List: $14.95
352 pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
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A Novel
by Kiran Desai Jan 2006
(15 reviews) List: $24.00
336 pages
Atlantic Monthly Press
| a novel about family bonds
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A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment
by Nathan M. Jensen Jan 2006
(2 reviews) List: $35.00
224 pages
Princeton University Press
| Rule of law and credibility, not low corporate taxes, are the key features in luring foreign investment. You pro-tax people might think this is good news, but it probably just means that the burden of those taxes falls on labor, or on consumers.
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| 2005
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by Bob Dylan Sep 2005
(230 reviews) List: $14.00
320 pages
Simon & Schuster
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New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann Aug 2005
(106 reviews) List: $30.00
480 pages
Knopf
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by Orhan Pamuk Jul 2005
(71 reviews) List: $14.95
480 pages
Vintage
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Memories and the City
by Orhan Pamuk Jun 2005
(23 reviews) List: $26.95
400 pages
Knopf
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Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
by Tyler Cowen Apr 2005
(1 review) List: $26.95
202 pages
University of Michigan Press
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The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M. Barry Feb 2005
(128 reviews) List: $16.00
560 pages
Penguin (Non-Classics)
| I was surprised to learn from John M. Barry's excellent book that germs continued to have a disproportionate influence on the civilizations well into the twentieth century and perhaps even today.
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| 2004
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by Roberto Bolano,
Chris Andrews Dec 2004
(3 reviews) List: $14.95
149 pages
New Directions Publishing
| A minor masterpiece. He is another of those first-tier Latin writers, along with Asturias and Rulfo, who for mysterious reasons no one in the United States seems to read.
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How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
by Virginia Postrel Sep 2004
(34 reviews) List: $13.95
272 pages
Harper Perennial
| (my rating) Smart, fun to read, and correct. She tells us that we have entered the "Age of Aesthetics," a time when beauty and style are to be found everywhere, at least for market economies. Every product, every place, and every experience now is supposed to offer a touch of the aesthetic. The reason is simple: increasingly wealthy and sophisticated customers demand "an enticing, stimulating, diverse, and beautiful world." (p.4)
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A Novel
by David Mitchell Aug 2004
(136 reviews) List: $14.95
528 pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
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2003
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by Stephen King Oct 2003
(238 reviews) List: $31.96
Signet
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Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunus Oct 2003
(22 reviews) List: $15.00
288 pages
PublicAffairs
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2002
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Fortieth Anniversary Edition
by Milton Friedman Nov 2002
(93 reviews) List: $13.00
230 pages
University Of Chicago Press
| the second or third book I ever read on economics and it definitely shaped my life
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Private Prisons and the Control of Crime
Editor:
Alexander Tabarrok Oct 2002
List: $19.95
270 pages
Independent Institute
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How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
by Tyler Cowen Sep 2002
(6 reviews) List: $45.00
192 pages
Princeton University Press
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by Orhan Pamuk Aug 2002
(86 reviews) List: $14.95
432 pages
Vintage
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Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Editors:
David T. Beito,
Peter Gordon,
Peter Gordon,
Alexander Tabarrok May 2002
(2 reviews) List: $30.00
480 pages
University of Michigan Press
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by Tyler Cowen Mar 2002
(3 reviews) List: $17.95
256 pages
Harvard University Press
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Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science
Editor:
Alexander Tabarrok Feb 2002
(2 reviews) List: $29.50
328 pages
Oxford University Press, USA
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| 2001
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The Next Revolution in Physics
by Julian Barbour Nov 2001
(42 reviews) List: $19.95
384 pages
Oxford University Press, USA
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2000
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A Novel
by Salman Rushdie Dec 2000
(192 reviews) List: $16.00
576 pages
Picador USA
| Fun from the outset, and you can test your knowledge of Bollywood and Islamic theology. Too famous as a political dispute, too little known as a book.
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by Tyler Cowen Apr 2000
(6 reviews) List: $17.95
288 pages
Harvard University Press
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1999
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by Tim O'Brien Sep 1999
(68 reviews) List: $14.95
352 pages
Broadway Books
| a neglected classic
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Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
by James M. Buchanan,
Gordon Tullock Aug 1999
(8 reviews) List: $20.00
356 pages
Liberty Fund
| My colleague Gordon Tullock is one of the most deserving scholars never to have received a Nobel Prize. This book set the foundation for how economists think about voting rules and "politics as exchange."
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1998
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by Orhan Pamuk Mar 1998
(32 reviews) List: $13.95
304 pages
Vintage
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A Novel
by Orhan Pamuk Mar 1998
(30 reviews) List: $12.95
176 pages
Vintage
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1995
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A World View
by Thomas Sowell Aug 1995
(22 reviews) List: $18.95
352 pages
Basic Books
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by Miguel Angel Asturias Jan 1995
(4 reviews) List: $19.95
466 pages
University of Pittsburgh Press
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1994
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by Juan Rulfo May 1994
(46 reviews) List: $11.00
124 pages
Grove Press
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| 1991
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by William Faulkner Jan 1991
(68 reviews) List: $13.95
528 pages
Vintage
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1989
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by Anne Tyler Oct 1989
(90 reviews) List: $7.99
352 pages
Berkley
| worth reading for a tale of dysfunctional families
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| 1986
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by Derek Parfit Feb 1986
(8 reviews) List: $29.95
543 pages
Oxford University Press, USA
| My favorite contemporary work in moral philosophy. He is also the most important thinker on social choice paradoxes since Kenneth Arrow.
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1978
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by F. A. Hayek Oct 1978
(18 reviews) List: $24.00
580 pages
University Of Chicago Press
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| 1975
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A Debate with His Critics
Editors:
Milton Friedman,
Robert J. Gordon,
Robert J. Gordon,
Karl Brunner,
Karl Brunner,
Allan H. Meltzer May 1975
(1 review) List: $16.00
199 pages
University of Chicago Press Journals
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