The Lucifer Effect: Review

Brain is the master of all evils and devils. Yet, we have understood it so little. How are human behaviors shaped, were human born good, can good people turn evil etc. remain unending questions. Among subjects in undergraduate level, psychology deals with this kind of issues and brain the most (unless your major is neuroscience). My encounter with two psychology classes in my under shaped my ways of thinking in a positive...

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The Constitution of Liberty

The book as well as the author are well-known but not as one would expect, although the ideas have changed the world in a great extent. Most students of economics do not even know his name. Some professors do hear his name but never actually read his books. That is my experience while I studied in Japan as well as of today when I asked people around me about that... Of course, if you read only textbooks, you would probably never...

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Free to Choose

Prof. Mankiw of Harvard has written two worldly popular textbooks in economics: Principles of Economics and Macroeconomics. There are many universities and professors who use his textbooks in classrooms. In my university, Kobe University, his textbooks are popular for undergraduate and graduate levels. I enormously like his books, and that is where I got to know the book Free to Choose.    In his note on his further...

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Economics in One Lesson

I have no reservation to say that Economics in One Lesson is one of few books in economics that can explain economics in simplest ways for laymen and economists alike. Giant economists such as Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek were far from being able to do so. This is one of the reasons that I include it in my 5 must read books in economics. Clearly this book is an updated version of Bastiat’s That Which is...

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