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Oil, Anatomy of an Industry by Matthew Yeomans is a Cliff’s Notes to the tremendous importance of oil and the oil industry in creating and maintaining American life and supremacy.
This fast-paced opens with a tongue-in-cheek attempt by Yeomans to avoid oil for one day. It is, to say the least, an impossible task. Oil [...]

Based on a quote used in a P.J. O’Rourke book from an obscure Scottish economist, William J. Bernstein goes to great lengths to show that prosperity is the result of four factors:

property rights
scientific method
capital
technology (communication + transportation)

Bernstein shows that efficient and secure property rights ensure that land will move from being concentrated among a few [...]

It took me way too long to get turned onto the work of Peter F. Drucker. An amazing read on leadership today … one that’s no-doubt familiar to the economist but not as readily known as should be.
Some noteworthy quotes
Management … will increasingly have to be based on the assumption that neither technology nor end-use [...]

quickly: if you work in TV, read this. if not, save money to pay for tv downloads. they take over soon.

Summary: UD student blogs: Nice try
Searching for music on iTunes, I came across a blog called “My life at UD”
It was the ramblings of a freshman at the University of Dayton. Interesting enough, the blog is hosted by the university.
When I first visited the site, I assumed that the school was actively encouraging students [...]

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman is an eye-opening look at global economic changes since 2000.
Friedman — as he proudly states — is a “technological determinist,” which is another way of saying “pragmatic American.”
The first 2/3rds of this work should be required reading for all Americans, with its seriously sobering tales of [...]