Book Reviews
In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade
China's economy just officially overtook the United States as the biggest economy in the world[1]. Most saw this passing of the torch as an inevitability; the Chinese government has been laser focused on economic growth, and it…
What If?
xkcd is one of a kind: the popular stick-figure webcomic for nerds and geeks seems to offer relevant commentary for pretty much any occasion. Its blend of computing, physics, math, and insights on life works well at a time…
Think Like a Freak
Freakonomics was the book that, in my mind, started the "pop economics" trend: a brand of economics, applied to subjects that are relatable to the general public, targeted towards a mass audience as a different take on familiar…
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim with Mario and Yoshi and…
Everything is Bullshit
Pricenomics is a startup that has somehow stumbled upon a pair of business models: data crawling, and blogging about data from a consumer-centric perspective. The latter has a pop-culture economics bent; it's a technique taken straight…
Flash Boys
I'm convinced that ever since humans have invented this idea of trade, that there soon followed people, with the idea that they can profit as middlemen, even if they have nothing to buy or sell directly. This concept…
