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This Book Deserves Its Own Post

By Josh Weil | Published: November 6, 2009
In my last post, I quoted extensively from the Introduction to Price Theory, David Friedman’s economic textbook. It turns out there is more and it’s really good. If you want to understand economics more deeply,  you have the opportunity to read Price Theory online. The Internet never ceases to amaze. I’m committing myself to read the entirety [...]
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On the Same Page

By Josh Weil | Published: November 5, 2009
Before each fall semester, UC Berkeley hands out a free book to all incoming freshmen. The rationale is to give freshmen a common thread to talk about and the opportunity to attend a few events on the subject. The book my year was a biography of Abraham Lincoln. It was pretty boring; I couldn’t get [...]
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