A typical popular non-fiction book: peppered with well-known stories as evidence; repeats a loosely-defined concept (“obliquity”, “blink”, “romantic economist”, “world is flat”); claims to explain the behaviour of system on earth (from trade to evolution); written in short paragraphs, which, combined, are as intellectually vacuous as “The Alchemist”.
This is one of them.
I’ve met more people, who thought that Sargent had already got the Nobel Prize, than those who thought he hadn’t. They must be rather confused now.
A very good and authentic Japanese restaurant on Leather Lane. Tempura to die for; set dinners are very good value.
A brilliant, geometrical, Lamarckian, social satire of Victorian England written in 1884 by a schoolmaster.
I use Lyx and BibDesk for all academic articles, but I was asked to create a reference management system for a team of ten economist running Windows and Office. I came across Mendeley on Wikipedia. I road-tested it quite intensely against rivals Qiqqa and Zotero and apart from a few minor glitches and necessary tweaks, it’s a winner.
I was planning to read “On What Matters”, then I read this article. It will be my next book.
Subir Sarkar, head of particle theory at Oxford University, says:
If we do not have causality, we are buggered.
As good as the book.
Brilliant Bagehot’s stablemate Blighty Blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqvaEB3Yv4
Sokurov has just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his “Faust”.
