why am i unsurprised that dilbert's cat bears an uncanny resemblance to von ribbentrop.
Just finishing 3 Body Problem.
It's okay. I like the somewhat unique premise and the sci-fi-ness of it all, but I usually read non-fiction so I'm not losing my load over it and probably won't read the others in the series.
It's okay. I like the somewhat unique premise and the sci-fi-ness of it all, but I usually read non-fiction so I'm not losing my load over it and probably won't read the others in the series.
I thought the same thing! The premise is intriguing enough to carry a story, but as is my gripe with most sci-fi/fantasy, often authors in those genres spend so much time world-building that it takes away from the focus of the story.pirana6 wrote:
Just finishing 3 Body Problem.
It's okay. I like the somewhat unique premise and the sci-fi-ness of it all, but I usually read non-fiction so I'm not losing my load over it and probably won't read the others in the series.
I just received Why Nations Fail, which was written like 10 years ago by the most recent Nobel Prize in Economics recipients. I'm only about 20 pages in but I'm finding it somewhat annoying and not at all what I was expecting. Hopefully it gets better.
general reaction in the discipline for that economics nobel was a lot of head-scratching i think. it’s generally a bad sign when economists start doing history or political economy. they end up recycling a lot very obvious and already stated material from the other fields but in that specially vatic and silly way that economists have when they’re pronouncing on things they just made up 20 minutes ago as if they’re iron laws of nature.
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From the little I've read so far, it seems like the authors are forcing their viewpoint to go through a very specific lense that i have major gripes with (that being the New Institutional Economics lense) to come to their conclusions. It sounds the same alarm bells in my head that a lot of macro-economic philosophy raises - the desire to retcon how and why institutions form, the insane idea that people are rational actors, and the clunky way a lot of economists try to tiptoe between philosophy, economic theory, and statistics.
I'll still give it a chance, but something tells me it won't be as intellectually stimulating as some of the other books I've read in this area.
I'll still give it a chance, but something tells me it won't be as intellectually stimulating as some of the other books I've read in this area.
Economists seem a weird lot - banks generate money, debt isn't real, very strange
Fuck Israel
My sister gave me a three book set including Three Body Problem, does that count as one book or three books?pirana6 wrote:
Just finishing 3 Body Problem.
It's okay. I like the somewhat unique premise and the sci-fi-ness of it all, but I usually read non-fiction so I'm not losing my load over it and probably won't read the others in the series.
Fuck Israel
i’ve just seen a video interview with the leader of the (probably definitely jihadist) rebels in syria, and he’s citing this book and talking incessantly about institutions. we live in a very strange post-postmodern time.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
From the little I've read so far, it seems like the authors are forcing their viewpoint to go through a very specific lense that i have major gripes with (that being the New Institutional Economics lense) to come to their conclusions. It sounds the same alarm bells in my head that a lot of macro-economic philosophy raises - the desire to retcon how and why institutions form, the insane idea that people are rational actors, and the clunky way a lot of economists try to tiptoe between philosophy, economic theory, and statistics.
I'll still give it a chance, but something tells me it won't be as intellectually stimulating as some of the other books I've read in this area.
as a tale about the dangers of economists overreaching their ken and doing bad historical analysis, this one is a little too on the nose. bunch of people razing syria to the ground with acemoglu/robinson tucked under their arms.