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• Preview of Book 2, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Policy Review publishes a preview of Book 2. Executives had too much confidence in their risk management strategies. Regulators, too, had excessive confidence in the measures that they had in place to ensure safety and soundness of banks and other regulated institutions... Simply put, there was a widespread gap ...
  9 hours ago

• Ayn Rand Discovers Public Choice, by David Henderson

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  He [Parnell Thomas, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee] tried to placate her [Ayn Rand] with promises of a "whole [new] special hearing devoted to nothing but ideology," where she could bring out "all the facts." She told him that, if she came back to testify at all, it would be on her terms. ...
  17 hours ago

• Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 126
  Received my copy of William L. Shea’s Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (Civil War America) . Publish date: November, 2009. Hardcover: 392 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807833150 From the publisher: “William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events ...
  20 hours ago

• The Party of No, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  The Washington Post reports , a new Washington Post poll also reveals deep dissatisfaction among GOP voters with the partys leadership as well as ideological and generational differences that may prove big obstacles to the partys plans for reclaiming power. The way I read the poll, Republican voters say "no" ...
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• Falkenstein on Book 1, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  In Book 1 , otherwise favorably, Eric Falkenstein writes , I found their general description of finance to have a misleading emphasis. There was an exposition where assets have risk characteristics that are obscured as they are passed up a food chain, until finally there is greater liquidity, but less information ...
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• Sourcery

  
  Books & other thoughts — Authority: 462
  This installment in the Discworld series returns its attention to Rincewind, the wizard/reluctant hero of the first two books of the series. The book opens with a scene in which a disgruntled wizard, the eighth son of an eighth son, who left Unseen University in a huff because he did not wish to follow the Lore of ...
  3 days ago

• A Busy Week

  
  Freedom From The Mundane — Authority: 115
  Image: Heavenawaits Busy; that about sums it up. Work, work, work but it’s been at a good pace this week so I’ve not been burning myself out as I have felt I have been doing recently. And I’m lapping up literature, which can’t be bad either. I’ve not been sleeping too great this week. I’ve found ...
  4 days ago

• Gracias Thanks

  
  A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy — Authority: 528
  Gracias / Thanks (English and Spanish Edition) by Pat Mora . Illustrations by John Parra . Lee & Low Books . 2009. Review copy supplied by publisher. The Plot: A young boy gives thanks for the people and things in his life, starting with " for the sun that wakes me up so I dont sleep for years and years ...
  5 days ago

• Book 1, Book 2, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Tyler Cowen recently said , if everyone read the book and was persuaded by it, would anything change for the better? An author should aim to write a book which matters. My latest book, Unchecked and Unbalanced is out. We might call it Book 2, since it is the second of my books to appear this month. Although ...
  5 days ago

• Reverse Stimulus, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Jerry ODriscoll writes there is a name for this economic policy: corporatism. Big government favors selected big business and rewards big labor as a junior partner. Its not socialism, but the economic component of a fascist political program. Credit administered on a favorable terms is the narcotic that ...
  6 days ago

• writing about writers

  
  the m john harrison blog — Authority: 122
  Sometimes in late November the urge to pour Jack Daniels on your breakfast is difficult to resist. Today I biked to Richmond Park & ran up & down the same hill for 20 minutes instead. It’s not Sintra; but there’s a lot of mud & bracken &, on the perimeter path, a fair few hoity toity ...
  1 week ago

• Best Civil War Regiment History Books?

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 126
  What are the best American Civil War Regimental Histories? Not the best regiment, but the best book about a Civil War regiment? I’d like to invite my fellow Civil War bloggers to join in and let me know what regimental histories they have enjoyed and why. My pick: Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and ...
  1 week ago

• Free AudioBook: Desiring God by John Piper

  
  Fundamentally Reformed — Authority: 115
  I recently downloaded Desiring God by John Piper as an audio book for free from ChristianAudio.com .  My friend Shaun Tabatt (of Bible Geek Gone Wild) explains how to download the book for yourself . It’s one of Piper’s books that is especially worth grappling with.  I’m looking forward to listening to it ...
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• Civil War Book Reviews

  
  Blog 4 History: American & Civil War History — Authority: 126
  I’ve often been fascinated how reviews can vary so much in regards to American Civil War books. Reviews for The American Civil War: A Military History , by renown British author/historian John Keegan perhaps represents one of the finest examples of such variety in reviews. I understand that every reviewer is not ...
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• By Popular Demand: a Kindle Edition, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  From Poverty to Prosperity is available on Amazons Kindle. I appreciate the publishers responsiveness on this. Publishers have tended to think of Kindle editions as like paperbacks--you dont come out with one right away in order to avoid cannibalizing hardback sales. I think that the analogy between Kindle edition ...
  1 week ago

• Tinycandy’s Gift | Book Review and Giveaway

  
  The Dirty Shirt - Hands on product reviews for items from baby products to tech gadgets — Authority: 511
  Tinycandy is an elf growing up in the North Pole who always felt left out because he walks with a limp. With Christmas approaching, Tinycandy is desperate to find his special “gift” in order to contribute to Christmas in Santa’s workshop and become accepted by the other elves. Tinycandy soon discovers that his ...
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• The Hotel Under the Sand

  
  Books & other thoughts — Authority: 462
  Ive long been a fan of Kage Bakers science-fictional time-traveling cyborg series for adults, the Company novels. So when I heard shed written a book for younger readers, I was excited to read it. This one is a fantasy story with an atmosphere of magical realism and elements reminiscent of traditional tall tales. ...
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• From Poverty to Prosperity Watch, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  Ben Casnocha is the first to write a review. An excerpt: This is a book for people interested in economics first, entrepreneurship second, and globalization third. Its a book for people looking for contemporary insight on the ideas of people like Hayek, Drucker, Schump[e]ter, and Smith. Note that while the ...
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• Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin

  
  Auxiliary Memory — Authority: 454
  I’ve read other memoirs by the Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon, most of whom wrote about their tremendous efforts to become space jocks and their stories always peaked with their lunar adventures.  Buzz Aldrin second autobiographical book starts with the Apollo 11 landing and quickly wraps that adventure ...
  1 week ago

• marriage: love and war.

  
  samwise the brave — Authority: 117
  together, my bride melinda and i have been talking alot about marriage.  not ours directly, but we have reflected on it, but on the state of marriage in our spiritual community. whether we look at those she and i walk with, students, or even the adults in our small group, it is amazing to us the ongoing assaults that ...
  1 week ago

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