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- Key Points from Book: Trillions
- Key Points from Book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Key Points from Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Key Points from Book: THE SPECTRE OF WAR: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM AND THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
- Key Points from Books: Unraveled – The Life and Death of a Garment
- Key Points from Books: The Examined Life
- My New Year Covid Experience
- Key Points from Books: The Economist’s View of The World
- Key Points from Book: The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
- Key Points from Books: Blowout
- Key Summary from Books: Red Roulette
- Key Points from Iran: A Modern History
- Key Points: Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge To American Primacy
- Key Points from Book – VALUES: BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL
- Summer Trip to Gaspesie and Tadoussac, Quebec
- Six Years After: A Personal Reflection
- Key Points from Book: The Price of Peace
- Key Points from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Key Points from The Cost of Free Money
Category Archives: Review and Ideas
Key Points from Books: The Examined Life
The last book I picked to read in 2021 was rather unique, far from the fields I’m working in or from the other books I have been reading over the year. The Examined Life is written by psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz … Continue reading
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Tagged avoidance, death, examined life, life, pscyhology, reflection, stephen grosz, trauma, understanding emotion
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My New Year Covid Experience
After living quite responsibly for the pats two years, I finally tested positive for Covid-19 two days ago, after being tested negative 5 days earlier, the day when I did not feel particularly well. I was expecting a positive result … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, covid, experience, gratitute, montreal, new year, quebec, symptom
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Key Points from Books: The Economist’s View of The World
As the year goes to an end and my book list is getting shorter, I thought I’d share another eye-opening book, for both economist and non-economist alike, written by Steven E. Rhoads. The version I’m reading was published in the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, economist, economy, key points, perspective, public policy, rational, steven rhoads, summary, view, world
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Key Points from Book: The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales
by Forni Lorenzo My primary motivation for writing this book is that, all too often, economic policy seems to do harm and impose unnecessary costs on populations of many different countries. These costs result in the waste of scarce resources, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, budget, constraint, fiscalpolicy, forni lorenzo, key points, mmt, review, summary
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Key Points from Books: Blowout
BLOWOUT: CORRUPTED DEMOCRACY, ROGUE STATE RUSSIA, AND THE RICHEST, MOST DESTRUCTIVE INDUSTRY ON EARTH by Rachel Maddow Turns out Putin made mistakes over the past fifteen years—big, fundamental, hard-to-reverse mistakes. That can happen when you try to build your country’s … Continue reading
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Tagged blowout, book, energy, exxon, key points, oil, review, rex tillerson, russia, summary
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