Has anyone on the OT read "Think Like a Freak" by Levitt & Dubner?

Naked Economics
More Sex is Safer Sex
Soccernomics
Blind Side
Money Ball
The Extra 2%

I'm currently reading Economist Goes to Lunch

Russ Roberts' Econ Talk podcast is also pretty interesting as well.

If you wanted to look more at financial history type stuff, Roger Lowentstein has a few good ones. When Genius Failed was my favorite.

ETA: Armchair Economist and Discover Your Inner Economist were good as well.

I read the first two, as well as Outliers and Tipping Point from Malcolm Gladwell. Wouldn't recommend What the Dog Saw as it isn't particularly good.

I'd recommend Michael Lewis's serious non-fiction, if you find the subject matter interesting for each book. The Big Short is outstanding, and it seems like you are interested in the financial crisis of 2008. Haven't read Flash Boys, but heard that is also great.

Everything you said; I agree.

I heard their podcast the other day and they were talking about why more people don't say "I don't know?"....was pretty interesting.

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quote: Malcolm Gladwell you like that brillo-headed little communist penis? That makes me sad.

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Now here's a scholarly well read poster.

I've read all of his books and they are pretty interesting. And as he says he isn't writing for you to agree with him. He's writing for you to be engaged.

The Big Short is a great read. The Smartest Guys in the Room about Enron is good.

Operation Paperclip about Nazi after WWII coming to America for work. Nice read.

Wine and War about the French Resistance and French wine during WWII.

Dad is Fat Jim Gaffigan.

Any David Sedaris

Any Rick Bragg

I read Freakonomics. Interesting. I'm waiting to get through this pile to get that new one.

So I'm stupid because I don't care for little communist penis Malcolm Gladwell? How do you feel about his pussified hatred of football? He says it's because of the medical issues but he really wants to get rid of all the "combative" sports because, as I mentioned, he's a little communist penis.

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How do you feel about his pussified hatred of football? He says it's because of the medical issues but he really wants to get rid of all the "combative" sports because, as I mentioned, he's a little communist penis.

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what does one's opinion on football have to do with one's political beliefs?

I don't think you know what a communist is which makes me sad for you

Because they want to get rid of combative sports, and all competitive sports, actually. They claim it instills evil capitalist values in young people.

Yes, I know what communism is. He is absolutely not right to center right. He is hard left, and I'd like to shave that mop off of his head and choke him to death with it.

Thus far, his books(at least the ones I've read), don't even remotely come off as communist.

That's not his rationale at all. He opposes football for the brain trauma. He has no such issues with other sports, and most of,his sports topics are about things like soccer and hockey players for international teams being disproportionately born in January and February, due to league cut-offs. In other words, interesting things that are kind of peripheral topics. Gladwell was a high school champ in Canadian track and cross country, fwiw. Sounds pretty competitive to me.

He also has a lot of publications in right and libertarian publications although those were mostly in the past. I'd guess those are not due to ideological changes but rather the fact that the New Yorker pays much better.