"We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." ...

... said the philosopher Arnold Schopenhauer (according to Lim (2004)).

Books recently bought or read:

Lim, Gerrie (2004). Invisible trade: high-class sex for sale in Singapore, Singapore: Monsoon.

Stiglitz, JE (2004). Globalisations and its discontents, London: Penguin.

Galbraith, JK (2005). The economics of innocent fraud, London: Penguin.

Sachs, J (2005). The end of poverty: how we can make it happen in our lifetime, London: Penguin.

Hickman, T (2004). The call up: a history of national service 1947 - 1967, London: Headline.

Kerouac, J (2000). On the road, London: Penguin.

Books seen at the bookstores and considered:

Reader, J (2005). Cities, London: Vintage.

Haddon, M (2004). The curious incident of the dog in the night time, London: Vintage.

Chomsky, N (2004). Hegemony or survival: America's quest for global dominance, London: Penguin.

Schumacher, EF (1993). Small is beautiful: study of economics as if people mattered, London: Vintage.

Hayek, FA (2001). Road to serfdom, London: Routledge.

McCloiskey, DN (2000). How to be human: through an economist, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

Schwartz, B (2005). The paradox of choice: why more is less, London: Harper Collins.

Russell, B (2004). Power, London: Routledge.

Fukuyama, F (2005). State-building: governance and world order in the 21st century, London: Profile.

Books seen on Amazon's recommendations:

Carson, R (2000). Silent spring, London: Penguin.

McCloiskey, DN (1998). The rhetoric of economics, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.

Surowiecki, J (2005). The wisdom of crowds, London: Abacus.

Bhagwati, J (2004). In defence of globalisation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.