Cicero’s classic “Treatise on Friendship” is a joy to read even though written over two thousand years ago. Hear him. “In a word, other objects
Category: General
Why Nations Fail – A Review
Why Nations Fail – by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson This is an interesting highly readable book offering hope that geography, culture and history do
Poor Economics – Some Thoughts
“Poor economics – A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty” by Esther Duflo and Banerjee Abhijit is an attempt to understand and
Thoughts on “How Adam Smith can Change your Life” by Russ Roberts.
“How Adam Smith can change your life” by Russ Roberts is a commentary on the less known book of Adam Smith, “The theory of moral
Emerging Africa – A review
Kingsley Moghalu has written a fine and timely book and I congratulate him on that. He has also lent a distinctive African/Nigerian voice to the
My Favorite Reads in 2014
My Favorite Reads in 2014 I read some great books this year. Most of them were on entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship and philosophy. Below are the best
The Pleasure of Reading
I often hear people wonder what they will do if they longer had to work for a living and that life would be boring when
My Favourite Reads in 2013
This year I set a new record for the number of books I bought on Amazon. The figure is a whooping 216 Kindle books and
Why do you Read?
It is not often that one gets paid to reminiscence about why one reads and what one reads. Joe Queenan got that privilege and I
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