Books

I just purchased (on the basis of Michael Dirda’s review in today’s Washington Post Book World) Richard Fletcher’s Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England. When following up on Amazon.com’s…

Austro-Blogging I was just introduced to Greg Ransom’s blog, which has interesting comments on a wide variety of issues, as well as links to yet more blogging, with links….well, you…

I’ve gotten through the first chapters of Jerry Muller’s new book The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought, from which I expect to learn a great deal….

I recently re-read Vilfredo Pareto’s brilliant little book The Rise and Fall of the Elites, which is a good example of how much sociology can contribute to our understanding of,…

I recently re-read Vilfredo Pareto’s brilliant little book The Rise and Fall of the Elites, which is a good example of how much sociology can contribute to our understanding of,…

I recently re-read Vilfredo Pareto’s brilliant little book The Rise and Fall of the Elites, which is a good example of how much sociology can contribute to our understanding of,…

I recently re-read Vilfredo Pareto’s brilliant little book The Rise and Fall of the Elites, which is a good example of how much sociology can contribute to our understanding of,…

My note below about Fareed Zakaria’s excellent book was incomplete, since I had not finished reading the book. I learned some things from it, achieved some clarity on a couple…