What I’ve Been Reading – 2013

Check out the list below to see what I’ve been reading. You can click the links next to the books to see what thoughts these works inspired. Enjoy!

2014 • 2013 • 2012

the theory that would not die

Who Said Statisticians Were Uninteresting?

Why It Is Crucial to Practice Your Sense of Humor Now!

 

 

 

 

undercover economist

What’s Fair About Price Discrimination in Pharmaceutical Markets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

riddle of the labyrinth

Great Quote on the Psychology of Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 On the Psychology of Magicfooling houdini

On Personality and Professions

The Availability Heuristic

A Magician’s Eye for Consumer Scams

 

 

 

fish that ate the whale

Why I’m Bananas Over The Fish That Ate the Whale

The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Success

 

 

 

 

 

day of battle

On Reading Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lincoln at Gettysburg

How “Vague” Writing Can Be Powerful: A Lesson from Abe Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Power Broker

On the Importance of Getting Things Done in Politics

On Repetition and Good Writing

On the Underutilization of Single Sentence Paragraphs

Sunk Costs and Public Parks

More on the Social Psychology of Public Parks 

 

 

How Anti-Alcohol Regulations Promoted…Prostitution?!

Would the Founding Fathers Approve of a Sugar Tax?

A Smattering of Quotes from: Last Call – the Rise and Fall of Prohibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Do Patients Take Their Doctor’s Advice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Destruction Pre-Global Warming

 

 

 

 


 

What Iraq and Cuba Had in Common

Why I Sometimes Feel Like an Eisenhower Republican



 

 


Informed Consent 1950s Style

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why I Feel Like a Teddy Roosevelt Republican