1. Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk About Art as Intellectual Property, by Susan Bielstein. Yet another treatment of how copyright has gone too far, this book is full of both information and good humor.
2. Jonathan Tokeley, Rescuing the Past: The Cultural Heritage Crusade. A pro-property rights, pro-market (but with regulation) approach to the antiquities trade. A breath of fresh air in an otherwise poorly framed debate.
3. Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy; I blogged this before, but now I am reading it, this book is a major achievement. Here is an interview with Tooze. Here is more, and here.
4. The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon. This is also for my Law and Literature class next spring; from Pynchon, I enjoy this book and the first half of Gravity’s Rainbow. You don’t have to love 1960s left-wing semiotics for this one, although it doesn’t hurt. Over Christmas I might try Pynchon’s V., and for that matter Civilization IV.
5. Lots of opinions about intro economics, from CrookedTimber.















I take the core of the intro-economics discussion to be the fact that the study of economics, unlike most other disciplines, often ties in intimately with policy. (This is one of the reasons why I like economics.) The study of history might be comparable, but its political influences tend to be more indirect.
Should professors of introductory economics aim for political neutrality? What would that even look like? Perhaps you would teach that trade is good, but also explain why there is legitimate opposition to it (e.g., many people lose jobs and can’t easily go do something else). In Mankiw’s intro textbook, he spends a chapter on this, distinguishing between “positive” and “normative” views.
This is good. However, an effort to remain politically neutral in many cases would be half-hearted. This is not good. If the studies you believe say that trade really is good for everyone, then you shouldn’t try to neutralize this view. When in college, I preferred professors who stuck with their convictions. You have to assume that students will go on to learn different views.
Yay for V and Civ IV. Both a lot of fun. This reminded me to order his new book, coming out in a few days–amazon clocks it at 1120 pages…yikes. Fun summary from Pynchon himself on the amazon page, ends with:
“Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.”
Sid Meir’s Civ game is probably the only computer game that encourages a person to go pick up a good book on history. At least it does with me. It works the other way around as well; if I’m in a good piece of history, I’ll sometimes think of reloading my Civ game. Reading “Imperium” right now and actually thought of playing Civ.
Re: Against The Day, out on Tuesday. The famous crime writer Ian Rankin
explains in The Guardian (www.books.guardian.co.uk) why he loves Pynchon.
My tags didn’t work, but the link to the synopsis is here:
http://allintensivepurposes.blogspot.com/2006/08/against-day.html
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