I spent a good chunk of the weekend catching up on reading. On the fiction side, it was Haruki Murakami’s Dance, Dance, Dance, Roberto Bolano’s By Night in Chile, both of which I found good but not great. But I also read a book I picked up from a used book stall in Winnipeg: Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler (his wife Heidi was co-author, but this is deffo not evident from the cover and the marketing). If you’re under 50
Morning, all. The penultimate blog each year is about books. This year, the penultimate blog in June was also about books, so you might want to go back here to see what I had to say about the crop I went through in the first half of the year. In today’s effort, I’ll mostly stick to what I’ve read since mid-June. (But first, if you’re interested in some non-Higher Ed reading recommendations before XMAS: Valley of the Birdtail: an Indian
Hi all. You know the drill. Every six months I tell you about the higher education books I’ve read this year so you can go to the beach armed with the best in higher education reading. But first, I hear you are interested in some non-higher-ed reading? That sounds a bit weird to me, but I’ll oblige: My fiction pics for this last few months are The Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, and The Stolen Bicycle by
You may have heard about the article “In Defense of Merit and Science” that was rejected by “several prominent mainstream journals” before eventually being published by the newish Journal of Controversial Ideas. Well, I’ve read the paper and it’s a trash fire of a document which thoroughly deserved every single one of its rejections. In fact, it is such a trash heap, one suspects that it was submitted to these journals in full knowledge it would be rejected so that the
I recently read a fascinating book called “How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy “ by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo, all of whom are influenced by Marianna Mazucatto, whose work I have discussed here and here. It’s fascinating for two reasons: first, that the book says next to nothing about how making the state more entrepreneurial or why innovation needs bureaucracy, but it is a very inclusive history of the types innovation policy structures
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