Michael J. Ritchie's Blog, page 54
March 1, 2017
“Ape And Essence” by Aldous Huxley (1948)
[image error] “It was the day of Gandhi’s assassination; but on Calvary the sightseers were more interested in the contents of their picnic baskets than in the possible significance of the, after all, rather commonplace event they had turned out to witness.”
Aldous Huxley is almost certainly best remembered for his dystopian novel Brave New World, but he churned out several books on his lifetime. I confess though that until recently I couldn’t have named another one. I stumbled upon Ape and Essence a few w...
February 28, 2017
“Superfreakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (2009)
[image error] “Many of life’s decisions are hard.”
There are many questions in this life that still need an answer. We can turn to all manner of scientists and assorted experts to give us some of the answers, but sometimes the right answers are much harder to find than we may first think. It may be that we’re looking in all the wrong places, and applying the wrong rules. In some of those cases, it might be time to bring in the economists.
Superfreakonomics is the sequel to the popular Freakonomics, written...
