PositiveThe New Yorker... a timely and very useful guide to some of the new developments. In her book Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, Boushey assimilates a great deal of recent economic research and argues that it amounts to a paradigm shift ... Boushey provides a wealth of evidence that rising inequality is having precisely [negative effects ... During the twentieth century, a determined effort was made to reconstruct economics on the basis of rationality and scientific methods, with all value judgments excised. All too often, however, this project translated into a naïve faith in the market, and a deliberate neglect of the underlying factors that bias economic outcomes, such as history, geography, class, culture, race, gender, and access to political power. In many areas of the subject, economists are now trying to reintegrate these factors into the analysis. Reading Unbound is a good way to get an update on their progress.
Rick Reilly
PositiveThe New YorkerRelying on testimony from playing partners, caddies, and former Trump employees, Reilly pokes more holes in Trump’s claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming ... at the end of his book, he raises the question of whether Trump’s cheating matters and answers it in the affirmative ... For a sportswriter, that’s quite a bit of editorializing, and yet one senses that [writer P.G.] Wodehouse would have approved.
