http://joetalks.org/node/22 In Libris Verbitas! en http://joetalks.org/node/265 <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-start"><label>Start: </label>10/28/2007 - 5:00pm</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-end"><label>End: </label>10/28/2007 - 7:00pm</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-tz"><label>Timezone: </label>Etc/GMT-4</div></div> <p> The NYC JoeBooks club hits its third read, this time taking in Jason Furman's recommendation, The Myth of the Rational Voter - which tells us how we're all, by nature, bad economists. </p> <p> Jason's not the only one who says it's a must-read; the <a href="http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9340166">Economist </a>dug it, as did blogger/Harvard economist guru <a href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/best-book-ive-read-lately.html">Greg Mankiw</a>. Not everyone's raving though; Louis Menand gave it a <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books_menand?printable=true">rant at the New Yorker</a>. </p> <p> Any way you slice its 200 pages, it's sure to give us something to talk about. </p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/node/22" class="og_links">NYC JoeBooks</a></li> </ul></div> http://joetalks.org/node/265#comments NYC JoeBooks JoeBook Club Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:11:33 -0500 talker 265 at http://joetalks.org http://joetalks.org/node/253 <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/node/22" class="og_links">NYC JoeBooks</a></li> </ul></div> http://joetalks.org/node/253#comments NYC JoeBooks Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:32:54 -0500 talker 253 at http://joetalks.org http://joetalks.org/node/39 <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/node/22" class="og_links">NYC JoeBooks</a></li> </ul></div> http://joetalks.org/node/39#comments NYC JoeBooks Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:44:01 -0500 talker 39 at http://joetalks.org http://joetalks.org/node/23 <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-start"><label>Start: </label>09/16/2007 - 5:00pm</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-end"><label>End: </label>09/16/2007 - 7:00pm</div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-tz"><label>Timezone: </label>Etc/GMT-4</div></div> <p> We'll be meeting for our second book ever (!), reading Maggie Mahar's Money-Driven Medicine. </p> <p> MDM was recommended by <a href="http://www.newamerica.net/people/leif_wellington_haase" target="_blank" title="http://www.newamerica.net/people/leif_wellington_haase">Leif Wellington Haase</a>, the former health care fellow at The Century Foundation and now the guy heading up New America Foundation’s California office. So says Leif: </p> <div class="og_rss_groups"><ul class="links"><li class="first last og_links"><a href="/node/22" class="og_links">NYC JoeBooks</a></li> </ul></div><p><a href="http://joetalks.org/node/23">read more</a></p> http://joetalks.org/node/23#comments NYC JoeBooks JoeBook Club Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:48:04 -0500 talker 23 at http://joetalks.org