Jan

28

One of the pleasures of visiting the declining city of Chicago (perhaps the next Detroit), is to visit the Seminary Bookstore in their new location, 5727 S. University Avenue, They have a great collection of quasi academic books, i.e. the kind that professors write for popular consumption, and the current text books can be bought a few blocks west at the University Bookstore.

Compared to the old store, it has much more room, much more light and glass windows, and plenty of places to sit and read. And unlike the old store, it's possible to find your way out without being buried by a ton of musty books if you don't get lost in the basement. I am one of those unfortunates who was not educated enough in my college days to have a good grounding in all the disciplines that make up the world of knowledge so I like to update myself periodically in areas that I am weak in or should know much more about, especially for market actualization or knowledge to share with my kids.

Perhaps the list of books I bought might be of interest to some scholars or would be market people. Microeconomics by Besanko and Braeutigan

Industrial Organization by Luis Cabral

Investments Bodie, Kane, Marcus (ninth edition)

Stochastic Modeling Barry Nelson

Scorecasting Moskowitz and Wertheim

The Evolution of Plants Wills and McElwain

Survival by Minelli and Mannuci

Thieves, Deceivers and Killers, Agosta

The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914

The Lions of Tsavo, Patterson

Modeling Binary Data by David Collett (second edition)

Historical Perspectives on the American Economy, Whaples

Viruses, Plagues, and History, Olstone

Plastic (a toxic love story), Feinkel (for the collab for her new business)

The Power of Plagues, Sherman

Quantitative Ecological Theory, Rose

Think Python, O'Reilly (for my kids who want a job in the future).

Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte

All of Nonparametric Statistics by Larry Wasserman

Number Shape and Symmetry by Diane Hermann and Paul Sally

Nonparametri Statistics with Applications to Science and Engineering, Paul Kvam and Brani Vidakovic

Discrete Multivariate Analysis by Yvonne Bishop et al

Modeling with dta by Ben Klemens

Python Essential Reference by David Beaszley

The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker

America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds

The Entrepreneur (classic texts by Joseph Schumpeter) Marcus Becker

A History of Everyday Things: the birth of consumption in France, Daniel Roche

Civilization by Niall Ferguson (the west and the rest)

The Americans (the Colonial Experience) by Daniel Boorstin

Triumph of the City (how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier) by Edward Glaeser

The Big Red Book by Coleman Barks (bought by Susan)

The Founders and Finance, Thomas McCraw

A Nation of Deadbeats (an uncommon history of America's financial disasters) by Scott Reynolds Nelson. (this one I have to read immediately)

Rome by Robert Hughes

The American Game: capitalism, decolonization, world domination and baseball by John Kelley ( 173 5 by 8 pages only)

Exploring the city (inquiries toward an urban anthropology ) by Ulf Hannerz

Brokerage and Closure (an intro to social capital), Ronald Burt

All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing (an explanation of meter and versification) by Timothy Steele

The American Songbook by Carl Sandburg (for Aubrey)

The Measure of Civilization (how social development decides the fate of nations) by Ian Morris

Freaks of Fortune ( the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America by Jonathan Levy

The Invention of Enterprise (entrepreneurship, from ancient mesopotamia to Modern times) by David Landes et al
 

I feel like Louis L'amour who gave lists of books he likes to read in The Wandering Man without telling what he got out of them, but I do not have enough erudition to tell based on skimming them how valuable or interesting they are. Any suggestions or augmentations on that front would be appreciated and perhaps helpful to others.

Kim Zussman writes: 

University of Chicago is now ranked #4 by US News — the highest ever. This is a big jump from the era of the low tax predecessor to the former con law professor, and will hopefully have a favorable impact on South side murder rates.

Dan Grossman writes: 

Unintended Consequences by Edward Conard is the best book I have seen on the subprime crisis and current government tax and economic policy.

Jan

19

I saw the article on your site about traders with Asperger’s and forwarded it to my friend, Debbie Hilibrand, who is extremely involved with Autism at Yale. She is curious if you know of any "brilliant traders" with Aperger’s.

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