by Elvis » Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:18 pm
Oh, and currently, since you ask—
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
— it's Vol.II of a trilogy biography by Morris, picking up when Roosevelt becomes president. I read Vol.I The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, which I highly recommend if you're curious about TR. There was never anyone like him and he's fun to read about. I'm a TR fan—except for his childish war fever, which was unfortunate to say the least. Just now reading about the British & Germans both threatening to seize Venezuelan territory for late debt payments. Pretty sure that didn't happen, will find out tonight.
Just finished—
Understanding Government Finance by Brian Romanchuck
Short explainer from an MMT perspective, with emphasis on bonds, bond pricing etc., which gets crazy. Not a book I wanted to go on forvever. (For that, try J.K. Galbraith.) Romanchuck is pretty good at explaining stuff, though. I started reading his blogposts at "bondeconomics."
Next I'll finish Pat O'Day's book—
It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll
—which I started but put down to read—
My Adventures in Zuni by Frank H. Cushing
—an early Smithsonian ethnologist who "went wild" and moved in with the Zuni Indians, eventually gaining admittance to their secret societies and himself becoming a Zuni war chief. I want to say don't die without reading this. There should be a movie.
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” ― Joan Robinson