2012 Books, Part 1
Some books I read this year: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf. I didn’t strictly read this, but listened to it, while driving between New York City and western Massachusetts. What a magnificent novel! I...
View ArticleBooks You Could Read
Here are some books I’ve read recently. W. Arthur Lewis, The Evolution of the World Economic Order This little book may have the highest insights-per-page density of any economics book I’ve read....
View Article2017 Books
I didn’t read very many books this past year. Can’t claim this guy as an excuse, he was only present the last month of it. Here are some I did read; I might be forgetting one or two. Przeworski –...
View ArticleV for Varoufakis
I have a long review up at Boston Review of three books by Yanis Varoufakis: The Global Minotaur, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, and Adults in the Room. Here’s the start: In the spring of 2015, a...
View ArticleReview of Globalists
Over at Boston Review, I have a review of Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. You can read it there, then comment here if you like.
View ArticleIn The American Prospect: The Collapse of Austerity Economics
(This review is coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, and appears in the Fall 2019 issue of the The American Prospect. The version below includes a few passages that were cut from the published version for...
View Article2019 Books
Books I read in 2019. I’m sure I’m forgetting one or two. Novels and stories Transit. This is a lovely short novel by the German communist Anna Seghers, which I stumbled across on my parents’ shelves....
View ArticleAt Jacobin: Review of Beth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist
(This review appeared in the Summer 2022 edition of Jacobin.) After the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, universal health insurance seemed to be on its way. In 1971, the New York Times observed that...
View Article2020 books
(I wrote this list at the beginning of 2021 but for some reason never posted it. I figured it’s worth putting up now – they’re all still good books.) Books I read in 2020. None of them were...
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2023 Books
Edward Biberman, Slow Curve, 1945. Books I read in 2023. I’m probably forgetting some. Geoffrey Ingham, The Nature of Money. One of the fundamental divides in thinking about money is whether we start...
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