Continuing my summer streak of reading excellent books, I recently finished Bryan Caplan’s fantastic The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. I really like Bryan’s posts over at EconLog, so I’ve been eager to read this book for a long time, and I was not disappointed. Even if you don’t care [...]
Of all the good books I’ve read recently, the best so far is probably Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Other Pricing Puzzles by Richard McKenzie. The EconTalk podcast on the subject is an enduring favorite, and I’ve probably listened to it 3 or 4 times since it originally aired last year.
The [...]
A few weeks ago I read Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, or more precisely I listened to the audiobook version. I’ll have some follow-up posts dealing with the actual contents of the book, but I thought I’d start out with my general impressions.
To me, this book seems like a very good introduction to the important [...]
I haven’t had enough time sitting at my computer this past week to actually sit down and generate much content (or catch up on the blogs or comics I read, or really use my computer much at all) this week, but I have seen quite a few movies recently and I thought I might as [...]
Since I’ve been talkng up online learning, I thought that I’d make a few recommendations and offer my thoughts on some of the resources I’ve found. I’ll also put up some links on the sidebar for the resources I’ve found so far. If you know of any good resources that you think deserve to be [...]
Physical chemistry Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and all around curious guy.