en-US Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:34:07 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 101843 The High Cost of Free Parking that parking is sorely misunderstood and mismanaged by planners, architects, and politicians. He proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking so that Americans can stop paying for free parking's hidden costs.
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]]> 75403 The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It's an American classic.]]> 816 David Halberstam 0679640991 Charlie 3 4.35 1969
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This is an excellent, detailed history of US entanglement in Vietnam. It has particular value as a study of group decision making under uncertainty, information incentives in a bureaucracy, and the misapplication of expertise. Halberstam writes good set-piece biographies of the key players and clear analysis of major (and minor) events, but the prose is at times turgid and the book is as a whole overlong and somewhat loosely edited.
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]]> 75834 191 Friedrich A. Hayek 0226320863 Charlie 0 currently-reading 4.28 1973
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Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.]]> 384 Joel Mokyr 0691120137 Charlie 5 4.01 2002
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