In various stages of undress:
Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing, reviewed by Virginia Postrel here. Stephen M. Davidson, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System (intelligent book, bad timing since it pushes a non-Obama reform). Peter Heather, Empires and Barbarians The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe; good book but I've read too much on this topic lately. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, has the pluses and minuses of an edited collection. Boris Groysberg, Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance; interesting hypothesis but I wanted to see more on regression toward the mean. Stuart Buck, Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation, a politically incorrect reexamination of what the title suggests. Matthew E. Kahn, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in a Hotter Future. Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains; is the joke "I couldn't finish it" or "I'm still reading it"? Daniel Rigney, The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begs Further Advantage, I wonder how much his last book sold.
Is the last book a how-to or a whine party?
ey mulp, on what bases do you think single-payer is a good idea?
Try this title:
http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Future-Philosophy-Columbia-Themes/dp/0231150539/ref=pd_cp_b_1
The Nature and Future of Philosophy (Columbia Themes in Philosophy) [Paperback]
Michael Dummett
And an older book:
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Analytical-Philosophy-Michael-Dummett/dp/0674644735/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274483175&sr=1-6
Origins of Analytical Philosophy [Paperback]
Michael Dummett
Of course, you might have already read both. Dummett is one of the very few current philosophers I can read. Given the number of books you read, I don’t feel any angst in recommending them to you. If you dislike them, you haven’t wasted a couple of weeks.
@mulp: I know for certain that Germany does not have a single payer system, but a multi-layered system with compulsory public health insurance (with dozens of different public health insurance companies), additional voluntary private health insurance etc. To make things more complicated, not all public health costs are paid by public health insurance companies, but by other public entities. So much for single payer. The French system is not a real single payer system either.
The Art of Choosing has a Kindle premium. I only found it out after having purchased the Kindle edition. It is very hard to resist the temptation of impulse purchase after finishing a book sample and still wanting to read more.
Btw, I checked the quote from Matthew that last book takes its title from. It’s clear from reading the biblical chapter that Jesus is speaking of spiritual knowledge, not material possessions.
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