Books I Read in 2012

Chronologically, first to last:

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Moo by Jane Smiley
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof & Robert Shiller
Red Star over China by Edgar Snow
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Hit Charade by Tyler Gray
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Rationality in Economics by Vernon Smith
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Take Me With You by Brad Newsham
The Invention of the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang
Slapped by the Invisible Hand by Gary Gorton
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Measure of Reality by Alfred Crosby
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Profit of Education by Richard Startz
Economic Fables by Ariel Rubinstein
The New Industrial State by JK Galbraith
Health Care Reform & American Politics by Lawrence R. Jacobs & Theda Skocpol
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models by Andrew Gelman
Jeeves in the Offing by PG Wodehouse
Stone Age Economics by Marshall David Sahlins
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Race Between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence Katz
A Question of Balance by William Nordhaus
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
The Myth of Ownership by Liam Murphy & Thomas Nagel
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms
Signals by Brian Skyrms
The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dixit & Barry Nalebuff
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Pleasure Wars by Peter Gay

Books I Read in 2011

Chronologically, first to last:

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
Quasi-Rational Economics by Richard Thaler
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language by Bill Bryson
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Black Noise by Tricia Rose
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Investing in Kids by Timothy J. Bartik
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Great Jones Street by Don Delillo
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Age of the Economist by Daniel Fusfeld
The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
1001 Facts that Will Scare the Shit Out of You by Cary McNeal
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Why Choose This Book by Read Montague
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories by Voltaire
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain by Paul Glimcher
The Puzzle of Modern Economics by Roger Backhouse
The Natural History of the Rich by Richard COnniff
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke
A Not-So-Dismal Science by Mancur Olsen
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Foraging Theory by David Stephens and John Krebs
You Better Work! by Kai Fikentscher
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit by Frank Knight
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior by Bruce Winterhalder and Eric Smith
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Greed by Elfriede Jelinek
The Price is Wrong by Sarah Maxwell
College Choices ed. Caroline Hoxby
The Winner's Curse by Richard THaler
Qualitative Research by Sharan B. Merriam
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Canon by Natalie Angier
From the Diary of a Snail by Gunter Grass
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain ed. Paul Glimcher
Mathematical Circus by Martin Gardner
Identity Economics by George Akerlof & Rachel Kranton
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Economics and the Public Purpose by James Galbraith
Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis by Paul Glimcher
L'Aventure Ambigue by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Six Unsolved Ciphers by Richard Belfield
Methods Matter by Richard Murnane and Tyler Willett
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by James Galbraith
Retail Anarchy by Sam Pocker
Blunder by Zachary Shore
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Books I read in 2010

Chronologically:

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Gravity's Rainbow
DUB
Geek Love
My Life in Orange
Damned Lies and Statistics
High Fidelity
How to Dunk a Donut
The Areas of My Expertise
In Defense of Food
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Existentialism and Human Emotions
How I Became a Famous Novelist
Off the Books
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Asterios Polyp
Objectivity
The Road
A Power Stronger Than Itself
The Left Hand of Darkness
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Infinite Jest
Mortified
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Treatise on the Family
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Anti-Gravity
Identity Economics
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Black Swan
Humboldt's Gift
How to Lie with Statistics
Foe
Global Outrage
Crime and Punishment
Mason & Dixon
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Your Mouth is Lovely
Techno Rebels
As I Lay Dying
Foundations of Rational Choice Under Risk
Sabbath's Theater
The Thin Place
Reflection Without Rules
2666
We Never Learn

Intangible Craigslist

FOR SALE: One Identity, Slightly Used: Ran into a little existential trouble, willing to part with it for cheap, still runs fine. Comes with two credit card numbers.

M4W: Want to meet up and stare at eachother while we imagine fucking eachother's brains out, then go home? sound s hot 2 me call me

STRICTLY PLATONIC: Building a theoretical Republic, anybody who wants to help come by, 5-6:30pm TONIGHT!

LOST: One virginity, please return. Will reward.

FREE: Come n get it!! got a fledgling democracy in my bkyard, freedom 4 all

MISSED CONNECTIONS: I was signifier, u were signified, but sumthin came btween us please call

I Google Me

- Found that paper I wrote on trains in the third grade! Wow!
- Oh good, that nonprofit I worked for lists my name on their website. That'll be good for my resume.
- My ex put me on her Facebook "25 Things I Hate" list?! That's kinda petty.
- Oh wow, I'd forgotten all about that beer drinking contest I won in Reno.
- Why is my name on this racial hate site? They have a picture of me, too! I don't remember this at all!
- This editorial is totally wrong! I am definitely not a serial killer.
- I'm on the front page of CNN! "Wanted fugitive??"
- Oh look, the Amazon review I wrote on the candy-making kit. That kit was... Hey, what's that knock on the door? Are those sirens?

Pizza Disagreements

To Gerald Ferradoxine, esq.
WHEREAS, there was a pie of pizza to be ordered from a local practitioner of the FOOD to be delivered forthwith and with speed to the location in which both parties were residing,
and WHEREAS, the author of this letter did insist that he would be unwilling to consume or, indeed, to pay for any pizza unless it were to contain a reasonable trace of cheese, specifically of the mozzarella variety, as originated in the great land of ITALY,
and WHEREAS, the addressee did whine like a little six year old CHILD about wanting a vegan pizza, defined as one without a reasonable trace of CHEESE and therefore totally lame,
and WHEREAS, you forced the author of this letter to pay for the pizza because you "forgot your wallet," and further forced the author to view the film "Moulin Rouge" despite being informed that it was totally not the author's thing,
and WHEREAS, you were later seen eating a god damn chicken wing and aren't even vegan anyway and don't give me that "thought it was tofu" bull you tried last time,
it is THEREFORE DETERMINED that you a douche.

Time-Savrs

- No time to watch movies? Just read the plot summary on Wikipedia! Just as good!
- Like music, but it's cutting into your study time? Play it at double speed!
- Cut your food shopping time in half by eating nothing but cured cabbage. It's the manna!
- Getting dressed in the morning? Just pick one pant leg! It's all you need.
- Internet too slow? Print out the whole thing beforehand for easy access!
- Takes too long to chew your cured cabbage? Just swallow it whole, then drink some extra stomach acid to help digest. Mmm-mm!
- Boyfriend/girlfriend wants all your time? Get them to cheat on you. Then you only have to deal with them half the time!
- Too much homework? Don't do it!