Thursday, February 14, 2013

Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East (2008)

Kishore Mahbubani.
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; book webpage at author's website.

Some Kishore Mahbubani links:

Kishore Mahbubani, his website.

Kishore Mahbubani, Wikipedia.

Kishore Mahbubani, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Video:

"Can America Handle the Rise of Asia?" Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 28 February 2008.

Watch it on YouTube.

"The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West," Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 21 February 2008:
Watch it on YouTube.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Ferguson, Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (1995)

Thomas Ferguson.
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Some Thomas Ferguson links:

Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Thomas Ferguson, Wikipedia.

Thomas Ferguson at The Nation.

Stories by Thomas Ferguson at AlterNet.

Thomas Ferguson, Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Investment theory of party competition, Wikipedia.

My post on Ferguson & Rogers's book Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986) is here.

Video:

Yves Smith, "Tom Ferguson Saw the Disheartening Future of American Politics 25 Years Ago," Naked Capitalism, 02 February 2013.
This article has a link to the video for an episode of a 1988 TV program that is mostly a conversation with Ferguson: Alternative Views #359: Democrats' Direction: Grover Clevland or FDR?, 13 July 1988.
Watch it at Archive.org.

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009), a documentary film directed by Jonathan Shockley.
Film website.
Watch it at YouTube.
Watch it at Archive.org.
Watch it at Vimeo.
(You can easily download the video file from Archive.org or Vimeo.)
This film is built around an interview with Ferguson.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Graham, The Intelligent Investor, 4e (1973; 2003)

Benjamin Graham.
The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel.
A reprint of the 1973 Fourth Revised Edition with Notes and Commentary by Jason Zweig.
New York: Collins Business / HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2003.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia.

Also currently available is a reprint of the 1949 first edition with a Forward by John C. Bogle (2005): Google Books; Amazon.com.

Benjamin Graham, Wikipedia.

Monday, February 04, 2013

Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s, 3e (1997)

Paul Krugman.
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s, third edition.
Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Some Paul Krugman links:

Paul Krugman, Wikipedia.

Paul Krugman, columnist at The New York Times.

The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman, his blog at The New York Times.

Paul R. Krugman, Princeton University.

The Official Paul Krugman Web Page, MIT.

Links to my posts on some of Krugman's other books:

Friday, February 01, 2013

Krugman, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2003; 2004)

Paul Krugman.
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, Updated and Expanded edition with a New Introduction.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003; 2004.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia.

Video:

Paul Krugman, "The War in Iraq and the American Economy," Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, YouTube, 26 September 2003.

Paul Krugman, "Book Discussion on The Great Unraveling," Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, Shorewood, Wisconsin, C-SPAN, 12 October 2003.

Paul Krugman, "Book Discussion on The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century," Miami Book Fair International, C-SPAN, 13 November 2004.

Some Paul Krugman links:

Paul Krugman, Wikipedia.

Paul Krugman, columnist at The New York Times.

The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman, his blog at The New York Times.

Paul R. Krugman, Princeton University.

The Official Paul Krugman Web Page, MIT.

Links to my posts on some of Krugman's other books: