Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

  • Review: Perkin’s Confessions of an Economic Hitman

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins This is garbage. Worse than that, it’s dangerous. First of all, I think Perkins is a total liar. I don’t doubt that there are people out there that make their living by betting against developing countries, and I don’t doubt that there are people who have an…

  • Review: Prins Other People’s Money

    Other People’s Money: The Corporate Mugging of America Nomi Prins Often, left leaning books on finance are poorly informed. Not so with Prin’s awesome Other People’s Money. Prin is a former Goldman Sachs director turned think tank progressive and she knows her stuff. Her critique here of the excesses of finance capital is now a…

  • Review: Barnett’s Pentagon’s New Map

    The Pentagon’s New Map Thomas P.M. Barnett I was dialing around cable at my parent’s house years ago and ran across the most incredible power point presentation being given by a dude from the Naval War College on CSPAN about how the U.S. should think about security threats in the future. Basically his point was…

  • Review: Karnazes’s Ultra-Marathon Man

    Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner Dean Karnazes The book that spawned a thousand of ultra-runners, Dean Karnazes’s chronicle of his life from depressed businessman to Ultra running superstar is the ur-text of the modern ultra endurance memoir trade. When it came out, it was a deeply controversial book in the ultra-running world. Karnezes…

  • Review: Mieville’s Perdido Street Station

    Perdido Street Station China Mieville The first in Mieville’s acclaimed New Crobuzon series. A “weird fiction” novel set in a kinda of steam punky city featuring monsters, weird machines, solid character development and very good writing. If this is your kind of thing, you’ve probably alreayd read it. If not, you should. Recommended for the…

  • Review: Dicken’s Global Shift

    Global Shift, Seventh Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy Peter Dicken This one really borders on being a textbook (and in fact, I read it for a class on international political economy in undergrad) but as I did read it cover to cover, I think its worth a review, though perhaps not…

  • Review: Mieville’s The Scar

    The Scar China Mieville I think this is my favorite of Mieville’s trilogy of novels set in the world in and surrounding New Crobuzon. I can’t say why I like this one best, I think because the monsters in Perdido Street Station were too… monstery, and the socialism in the Iron Council was too… socialist.…

  • Review: Lowenstein’s When Genius Failed

    When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein The death of Longterm Capital Management (LTCM) is one of the biggest collapses in modern financial history. So big, the Fed stepped in and made a number of major banks pony up serious dough to cover LTCMs loses so that the world…

  • Review: Clark’s Food Guide for Marathoners

    Nancy Clark’ s Food Guide for Marathoners: Tips for Everyday Champions Nancy Clark For a while at least, this was the definitive book on nutrition for endurance athletes. We’ve come a long way from the days of eat a ton of pasta the night before the race. Here, Clark discusses the timing of carbo-loading, the…

  • Review: Kurosawa’s Something Like An Autobiography

    Something Like An Autobiography Akira Kurosawa Its funny what you remember about books. When I started thinking about writing this review the first thing I remember from this book (I read it about two and a half years ago now) was that Kurosawa sure did drink a lot. Besides that, I remember this one as…