Book Reviews
Information glut is rampant. Here's our effort to filter your local bookstore.
- Keeping up with the Gateses? Laura Vanderkam 07/23/2007
- An economist explains, briefly, why inequality matters more than we think it does.
- Mind Games Charles Euchner 07/20/2007
- Chess superstar Garry Kasparov reveals his strategies for business, politics, and life.
- A Bout of Moral Ambiguity Graeme Wood 07/19/2007
- Two journalists, in their new book, profile a key figure in the global arms trade.
- An Amateur Economist Defends Mainstream Culture David Robinson 07/06/2007
- A new book on the evils of digital media is bold, provocative, and economically benighted.
- John Lott, Loaded Robert VerBruggen 06/28/2007
- The economist’s new book fires back at Steven Levitt and other critics.
- An African In Kabul Mauro De Lorenzo 06/21/2007
- A civilian adviser says private enterprise is the key to Afghan reconstruction.
- Fertility Treatments Bring Twins—and Trouble Joanne McNeil 06/21/2007
- As assisted reproduction becomes commonplace, medical and moral difficulties remain.
- Rethinking the Obesity ‘Crisis’ Laura Vanderkam 06/12/2007
- Weight has always been hard to control, says a leading science writer.
- Good Cap, Bad Cap Nick Schulz 06/04/2007
- Why don’t people take risks and start new businesses?
- The Sudden Ubiquity of China Mauro De Lorenzo 05/23/2007
- It’s not just a western obsession: Beijing really is ramping up diplomatic engagement all over the world.