Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts

Saturday, September 2, 2023

World View & Economics

 


xx Enlightenment Now (steven pinker)

xx The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (steven pinker)

xx Factfulness (Swedish guy)

xx Anti fragile (also above)

xx facts don’t care about your feelings by Ben Shapiro

(Machiavellian crap) - The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)

xx - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- remove everything that is fragile - likely to fail, or toxic...

k ... The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley)

It's Getting Better all the Time
- Julian Simon and Stephen Moore

- the tyranny of convenience- Tim Wu

the great demographic reversal
- Manoj Pradhan

The Economy of Cities
- Book by Jane Jacobs


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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

Thomas Sowell - economist and conservative commentator, USA

https://www.tsowell.com/

https://www.tsowell.com/quotes.html

https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm


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Sowell reading list - https://www.tsowell.com/SuggestedRead.htm
- Basic Economics - Sowell

... - (kindle has) Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies by Gregory Jackson
- Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
- What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis


Economics

- James Q Wilson - books on crime

- Peter Bower - on third world. Equality, the third world and economic delusion 

- Underdevelopment is a state of mind- Laurence Harrison

Sowell: a conflict of visions (sowells own fave), 

basic economics, (most readable)

black rednecks and white liberals.

vision of the anointed

knowledge and decisions 

other authors:

edward bellamy - Looking Backward


The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich Hayek

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