Books tagged by geir as: economics

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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Vintage)

Robert B. Reich


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Written before the government bailouts of 08-09 but interesting nevertheless. Mostly a demonstration of how lobbying effects public policy in the US. Not as boring as it sounds - but almost.
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Tagged on: 28 Oct 09
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller


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A friend recommended it, I heard Robert 'irrational exuberance' Schiller talk about it on the radio and it's shortlisted for the FT business book of the year. Officially on my to-do list.
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Tagged on: 15 Oct 09
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart

Ian Ayres


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Continuing with the Freakonomics theme, I bought this book a while back because it had a positive blurb from S.D. Levitt! Everything you ever wanted to know about data-mining but were too afraid to ask. Not at all bad.
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Tagged on: 13 Oct 09
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner


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This might just be the first book I ever pre-order. The authors aren't afraid of controversy and it will be especially interesting to see whether their unorthodox chapter on global warming will cause a Lomborg-esque storm.
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Tagged on: 12 Oct 09
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Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner


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It's a very entertaining read, this one. I really have to look into making Wajapi serve up "closely matched" images for books that Amazon for some reason doesn't supply images for!
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Tagged on: 20 Mar 09
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