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THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS, THE (The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, 1)
ADAM SMITH
Liberty Fund Inc., 1984
Wrongly Ignored
+ Excellent Book, Awful Kindle Formatting
+ Nature of Sympathy
+ 4.5 stars-A masterpiece but only after Part VI was added in 1790
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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Hobbes
Penguin Classics, 1982
What to do with Modern World
+ A Classic
+ Book for High School
This huge work is the foundation of classical liberalism; it is the basis for Locke, for Smith, and all economic neo-liberalists all the way up to the current period. Written during the English Reformation, Hobbes was confronted with the problem of absolute individualism; he begins this work of ...
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The Second Sex
Simone De Beauvoir
Vintage, 1989
the treaty on feminism
+ Worth more than gold
+ To what extent are women responsible for being the other?
+ good book
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Rousseau: 'The Discourses' and Other Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Essay, The Chain of Free Will
B1 refers to the 'the Discourses', B2 refers to the "Social Contract" by Rousseau
"Man are born free, but everywhere they are in chains."
What a glorious line! Who would not want to shake off the chains and be free? The question is, what kinds of freedom is Rousseau talking about, and where ...
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Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (with Economic Applications Online, Econometrics Data Sets with ...
Jeffrey Wooldridge
South-Western College Pub, 2005
A very good book
+ lovely
+ Great Exposition, but Poor Notation
+ Great for Self-studying
+ Excellent for cross-sectional but needs complements for time series
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Harvest Books, 1973
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS I HAVE READ.
+ Perhaps History Can Turn Our Heads
+ Arendt's Opus Magnum
MY EDUCATION WOULD BE INCOMPLETE HAD I NOT READ THIS BOOK. EASILY 5 STARS.
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Investment Science
David G. Luenberger
Oxford University Press, USA, 1997
superb coverage of subject matter
+ Excellent introduction to financial mathematics
+ The book's a book
+ good but not excellent
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The Age of Migration, Third Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller
The Guilford Press, 2003
Lots of info, little theory
Castles and Miller are considered the standard citation in social sciences for a historical overview of worldwide migration after WWII. The book covers a lot of material - numbers, policies, brief histories - but offers very little in the way of theoretical explanations for migration. Why are so ...
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Macroeconomics - 5th Edition
Robert J. Barro
The MIT Press, 1997
The best in the market...
+ excellent
+ Best book ever on macroeconomic principles
Barro's text has been unfairly criticized as not being mathematically rigorous enough. However, it has established itself as the standard text at all of America's top colleges - Harvard, Chicago, MIT, et al. - by relying on non-proprietary, supplementary, calculus driven texts written specifically ...
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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
F. A. Hayek
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
As revelant today as in 1944
+ Great service
+ Too bad we aren't taking this advice
+ Why Good Intentions Do Not Mean Good Outcomes
+ "All that is gold does not glitter"
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The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
Beacon Press, 2001
a stark utopia indeed
+ The GreatTransformation
+ Origins of Factor Markets
+ The Origins of Factor Markets
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Marq de Villiers
Mariner Books, 2001
A real eye opener
+ Outstanding Discussion Group Text
+ Good, but fails about Brazil
+ A Non-Fiction Page turner (!)
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The Practice of Business Statistics w/CD
David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, ...
W. H. Freeman, 2008
Strongly recommended for college courses in business statistics
I teach a college course in basic statistics at least once a year and for some time have used the book "The Basic Practice of Statistics" by one of the authors of this one. I have no intention of switching to this book, but I did examine it with the idea of determining if it would be appropriate ...
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Grove Press, 2005
Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt
+ Revolutionary Literature with a Pulse
+ Revolution of thought
+ Understand the Psychology of Violent Revolt
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Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods (with CD-ROM)
Beth L. Chance, Allan J. Rossman
Duxbury Press, 2005
Utterly useless text.
Key formulas were scattered everywhere, with students being required to work through the caveats on their own. For teachers thinking this is a great idea, bear in mind that the vast majority of your students even at elite colleges and graduate programs will not have the time nor will be willing to ...
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