Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

I just finished Behavioral Economics: A Very Short Introduction (2017), Baddeley, as a review of the field. Because I have reviews of...

Capitalism in America: A History (2018), Greenspan and Woolridge. Alan Greenspan was Federal Reserve Chairman for almost 20 years...

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index is somewhat pessimistic (based on 2018 scores), with only 11% of the countries of...

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, From the Founding to Today by David Brown (2016). This is one of the few books that...

Democracy is government by the people. The most common characteristics are legal equality, political freedom, and rule of law. These are...

I've been trying to read more broadly to get a better understanding about current economic/political dysfunction (and many other fields)....

Winner Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018), Anand Giridharadas: the elites want market solution...

We went to the Texas Book Festival in Austin over the weekend. This included Francis Fukuyama talking about Identity (see Oct. 15 blog)...

Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018), Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and (former?) neocon. An...

The Fifth Risk (2018), Michael Lewis, begins with "Lost in Transition," the Trump presidential transition under Chris Christie--a process...

The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) worked on a conceptual framework (basically, theory) for financial reporting for decades...

Super Forecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015), Philip Tetlock & Dab Gardner. This is more or less a followup on Tetlock's...

Philosopher and political theorist Isaiah Berlin wrote a 1951 essay called The Hedgehog and Fox, based on ancient Greek poet Archilochus:...

Among the hunted, horses have eyes at the sides of their heads, giving them great peripheral vision. Horses can go fast in a straight...

Naomi and I worked on a food history book for several years, with no luck getting a publisher. I finally self published on Kindle last...