Category Archives: Book Reviews
Do you want to be Smarter?
How would you like to be smarter? How would you like to be the go-to person for every Trivia night at your local watering hole? Or maybe you’d just like to get ahead in life or learn cool new things. Regardless, you can quench this thirst for knowledge right at DumbAgent’s Amazon store, located here: [...]
The End of Shopping
Is part of the subtitle of the book The Great Disruption, by Paul Gilding. I went to see him present his book at The Hub King’s Cross recently: how climate change is the new WWII (his comparison) and how it will disrupt the world as we know it. Fair enough. Notwithstanding the fact that he [...]
Book Review: Macrowikinomics
First of all, if you have never read Wikinomics (by the same authors), then it is worth picking up a copy of Macrowikinomics. If you pick it up, however, you might not want to read it cover to cover, but just concentrate on the sections you’re interested in and use the rest as reference. If [...]
The Upside of Irrationality
For those of you who enjoyed Freakonomics, Super Freakonomics, The Economic Naturalist, Nudge, Bringing Sexy Back to Economics, and various other books, and therefore thought you’d seen more or less all there was to see about quirky Economics, I am sorry to disappoint you, but Dan Ariely’s “The Upside of Irrationality” turns out to have [...]
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley’s new book, The Rational Optimist, is a book telling us that the future won’t be all that bad, and it is a book that ought to be read by all. As a warning, if you think progress has brought nothing but corruption and a worsening of what we hold near and dear you’re [...]
