Five best fiction books that I read in 2022.
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Mokyr argues a culture of inquiry led to the Industrial Revolution and staggering economic growth. Where are we now in America? A comparison to Industrial Europe and Qing-era China through Mokyr’s lens of Culture and Growth.
Leave a CommentTime for a thread on the best books that I read in 2021. Here are my ‘Ten’. Five works of fiction & memoirs, and five non-fiction.
Leave a CommentFerrante’s second book of the Neapolitan dissects love, violence, and the lives built on escaping the past.
Leave a CommentCarter is often described as a failure of an American president. Now, Kai Bird, the author of American Prometheus, the book on Oppenheimer, makes the case for another misunderstood American, President Jimmy Carter.
Leave a CommentIn her book, “On the Abolition of All Political Parties”, Weil’s skepticism towards organized parties emerges clearly. In the concise and short essay, Weil argues, why political parties are unendingly power-hungry. She proposes that imposing more constraints on them would only increase their motivation to grab more power and inch their way to totalitarianism. She then connects the lack of coherent philosophy to an increase in the dichotomy of viewpoints and polarization.
Leave a CommentThe recent kerfuffle about the book Noise, reminded me of my favorite Asimov story: Nightfall. Can be some basic ideas be overwritten and in the process, damaged?
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