Uber arouses strong opinions, for some good reasons. The trouble is – for those who strongly dislike the company’s treatment of its drivers – that it offers a service users and even some dr...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/uber-goes-to-washington/
I had been looking forward to reading The Ordinal Society by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, and it hasn’t disappointed. My copy is covered in sticky notes marking interesting points. What do...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/who-counts/
The house is full of slightly random books. I picked up one sent to Rory, Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch, a few years old now. She’s a linguist a...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/language-in-the-always-on-world/
Money has always seemed mysterious to me, and so I’ve always carefully avoided monetary economics as too difficult (which makes it ironic that when I returned from my US PhD programme to a job ...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/money-money-money-2/
I read a proof of The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies with a view to blurbing it, and was more than happy to recommend it. This is a fascinating book. The subtitle indicates its scope: “...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/unaccountable/
Another book of many out on AI is As If Human: Ethics and Artifical Intelligence by Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. I found this a very accessible book on AI ethics, possibly because neither au...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/ais-as-the-best/
Over the holiday weekend I read (among other things*) Digital Design: A History by Steven Eskilson. I enjoy reading design books in general – a window into a more glamorous specialism than econ...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/digital-design/
Code Dependent: Living in the shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia is a gripping read. She’s the FT’s AI Editor, so the book is well-written and benefits from her reporting experience at the FT a...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/03/ai-and-us/
I read Peter Turchin’s (2023) End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration on a long flight yesterday (I’m at Stanford for a couple of workshops). I’m not sure...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/03/were-all-doomed-maybe/
My in-pile of books is a bit random at the moment. I just finished a posthumously-published set of essays by Richard Rorty, What Can We Hope For? It’s a strikingly passive title (as indeed was ...
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/03/hoping-not-doing/