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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:39 pm
Ok, to give a barebones of the situation - I am soon to be on a week long holiday. It will be wet, cold, with little to do and worst - I will be in the company of my family (more serious note, they're fine and I get on with them, was humour).
Whilst it's possibly unsociable, I am seeking to take the opportunity to expand personal political perspectives. I am seeking books to read of political, philosophical, or economical nature.
I'm not looking for something neccessarily documentative, more in an arguing for/against an ideology form.
If anyone can recommend anything, I would be most appreciative. Who knows, send me the right thing and I may suddenly turn into a Stalinist or some other such creature I currently find inane. rolleyes
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:17 pm
Realizing Freedom by Tom Palmer.
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:47 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:31 pm
In Defence of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:36 pm
Thanks for what you've sent me so far. In any case I do not recieve them in time as orders, I'll keep an eye out for the authors' names in stores. And subsequently, the books (having 2 copies won't matter).
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:47 pm
I can't stand reading political books as every one I've picked up has been a one sided b***h feast usually directed at the other sides ideologies. Is there any decent books out there that explores both sides of an argument?
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:39 am
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 5:44 am
Mimetic Hybrid I can't stand reading political books as every one I've picked up has been a one sided b***h feast usually directed at the other sides ideologies. Is there any decent books out there that explores both sides of an argument? Probably not. Why I'm planning to read a few this summer and explicitly have planned to follow each I read with the counterpoint (if it can be so found). Anyway, thank you all again. See you all in a week (as though the ED will notice). razz
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:59 am
Okay, don't read this, but I saw an ad in the paper for Poorer Richard's America, which purports to be what Franklin would say about the debt issue. As written by a guy who thinks that business success makes him applicable to all issues. Gem from its webpage: Quote: Why do we cling tight to the Great Federal Breast, allowing ourselves to be crippled by a sea of debt? Mixed metaphor ahoy. Goo goo ga.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:53 am
Love it Wendigo.
(Oh yes, I've returned. Not having managed much at all - except thorough sunburn)
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:58 am
I like what I've come to call the "white cover" books,
Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker (a book that taking a principles of economics class before reading will help a lot)
I'd suggest Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom over Tom Palmer's Realizing Freedom, largely as C&F is a far more accessible book in my opinion, Palmer's book should be read for those with a far greater interest in political theory. Bhagwati's In Defense of Globalization is also a great read, though at this point I think Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat) should go rot in hell. He's just been rewriting the same column for the past decade or more publishing books that are only an agglomeration of his articles (Hot, Flat & Crowded).
Another one I suggest is Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do by Peter McWilliams, which deals with consensual crimes.
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:10 am
Well, I may have returned but I think I'll try to obtain everyone of these and read them by the end of this year.
Then I'll be all pretentious thinking it means I actually know what I'm talking about. rolleyes
(Edit: That's self-derogatory, not implied ad hominem by the way)
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:35 pm
A Really Bad Idea Love it Wendigo. (Oh yes, I've returned. Not having managed much at all - except thorough sunburn) The great federal breast, or did you read The World Is Flat?
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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:50 am
Wendigo A Really Bad Idea Love it Wendigo. (Oh yes, I've returned. Not having managed much at all - except thorough sunburn) The great federal breast, or did you read The World Is Flat? The Great Federal Breast thing, I lol'ed at it. Didn't get round to The World Is Flat. Or most of the suggestions here. Luckily, it does give me things to go over for now.
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