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Your world is about to get a whole lot smaller - Jeff Rubin. (Oct 09)
A brilliant discussion on the end of oil driven economic growth and a compelling arguement for changing the way we view the long-term impact of globalization and the movement of goods. Well worth a read. PJG
Globalization
Last interesting book - "In Defense of Globalization" by Jagdish Bhagwati (reviewed in the May 1st economist).
Posing
as a balanced realist Bhagwati actually trivializes and belittles the
thinking of the anti-globalization movement. Not that I disagree with
his main supporting arguments, but I really disagree with his overall
condescending attitude. If you can get past his biases this book does
seem to cover many of the issues surrounding globalization. (3 out of
5).
I did manage to read Siddhartha and 'The Book of Five Rings'
this summer. I feel a little like Siddhartha as he left the ascetics
and searched for the rumored 'all-knowing-one' gotama - only I suspect
I will spend more time searching than he did.
Curious... read the book.
Coming Soon - My Reading List
I am going to
try to make a reading list page with my thoughts, criticisms, and
insights on some random(?) books I have read over the course of my
studies. "Stages
of Meditation", "Zen & the martial arts", and "Numbers in the Dark
: And Other Stories" by ITALO CALVINO - (Highly Recommended!) "Good to
Great", "The Art of War", "The Essential Drucker", "Crossing the
Chasm", etc. |
| Great books (Sept 06)
There are a couple of great reads on the topic of civilization and our collective pending doom if we do not change our ways: (also note that almost all the massy lectures are powerful - particularly Stephen Lewis' lecture on HIV-AIDS in africa.)
Links for my last two reads are as follows:
A Brief History of Progress
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