Starting up again…
So I’ve actually been nagged by my loyal reader again and have decided to shake off the holiday blahs and get back into this effluent that I call “writing”.
Over the holidays betwixt events and Events and the like I worked my way throughsafer loads of TV and movies and had the chance to read through, Harford’s Logic of Life, Landesburg’s More Sex is Safer Sex, Truss’s Talk to the Hand, Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination, and a reread of Coase’s The Nature of the Firm, among other less intellectually stimulating fare.
Hardford’s book is a very enjoyable read, de- and constructing a variety of arguments for the sometimes hidden economic logic behind human actions and interaction. Well worth the read. Landesburg’s More Sex is just as enjoyable but with logic arguments that are meandering and long - merely trying to guess his end point is enjoyable enough. Truss’s rant is reasonably good but would mostly appeal to people that firmly believe that the world is a worse place than it was 30, 50, 100 years ago - in many ways it is but mostly it’s not. Becker’s book on discrimination was excellent and warrants a couple page discussion just on it’s own - was interesting to read after the US election.
And, Coase’s paper is worth reading, especially when thinking about the explosion of market and transaction information, leading to reduced collective bargaining, more independent consulting, and pseudo and amorphous professional collectives. I really think that this one should be dusted off and republished by those hip business magazines that usually subsist on truly ephemeral fads.
Anyway, I’ve got about 80 saved topics to work through over the next little bit and some of it’s going to get stale like organic bread.
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