SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner. As with the first book, Freakonomics, I was fascinated by the economic mechanisms and quirky independent research that challenges our assumptions and that should be considered when making public policy. Remember the connection between the [...]
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo The past few years have seen a number of popular books on the necessity and/or follies of development aid, and to Africa in particular. Think Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Collier. In the ongoing discussion about the [...]
Book Review: Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business by Erik Qualman This book I highly recommend for anyone trying to figure out what to do with Twitter, Facebook and whatever social media is out there (after you realize that blogging is actually yesterday’s news). It is an eye-opening and [...]
Book Review: The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory by David Plouffe I always follow US presidential elections closely, but the most recent one was special, as it was for many people. The grassroots movement of the Obama campaign, for which the Howard Dean campaign of 2004 Buy [...]
Book Review: The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America by Thurston Clarke Next to John F. Kennedy, one cannot pass on the tragic figure of his brother. Great insight into grassroots campaigning, RFK’s principles and positions, the US in 1968, and the tragedy of his death. For someone who wasn’t [...]