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Saturday, September 10, 2005

"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.

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