The Enlightened Economist

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An archive of the books featured on The Enlightened Economist, a reading blog run by the British writer and economist, Diane Coyle. The blog has been going since 2009, but only recently discovered by myself. However, it touches upon topics of relevance to all, and the type of non-fiction I like to read, but often struggle to find good reviews on.
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/carry-on-trucking/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/get-into-a-pod-with-some-gangsters/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/what-can-daniel-bell-teach-us-about-capitalism/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/the-bottom-billion/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/martin-wolf-scares-me-on-global-finance/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/george-orwell-on-money-and-the-lack-of-it/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/indias-creamy-layer/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/the-romantic-economist/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/denis-diderot-would-be-thrilled/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/mostly-harmless-econometrics/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/transatlantic-justice-for-john-rawls/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/animal-spirits/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/from-tiktaalik-to-investment-bankers-evolution-and-economics/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/recipes-for-economists/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/the-danger-of-organized-money/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/john-kay-on-the-long-and-the-short-of-it/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/the-international/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/dead-aid-by-dambisa-moyo/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/tim-harford-in-paperback/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/happiness-and-a-grumpy-economist/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/happiness-and-a-grumpy-economist/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/new-book-on-outsourcing-in-services/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/africas-turn/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/african-politics/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/warren-buffet-a-guest-review-of-the-snowball-by-nick-clack/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/stephen-marglins-the-dismal-science/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/what-the-victorians-did-that-we-cant/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/the-match-king/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/morals-and-markets/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/morals-and-markets/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/light-reading-on-statistics/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/galbraith-again/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/the-state-of-america/
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geocroc: https://www.librarything.com/list/18621/all/The-Enlightened-Economist#
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/the-british-industrial-revolution-in-global-perspective/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/fools-gold/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/captain-cook-in-the-southern-ocean/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/guest-review-by-dave-birch-of-the-frozen-trade/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/portfolios-of-the-poor/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/walter-lippmann-on-liberty-and-the-news/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/measuring-america/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/africa-by-richard-dowden/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/picturing-the-uncertain-world/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/economic-justice-in-an-unfair-world/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/mobile-communication/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/the-spirit-level/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/the-idea-of-justice/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/the-enlightened-economy-2/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/review-of-the-public-domain-by-james-boyle/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/john-stuart-mill-by-richard-reeves/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/wired-for-innovation/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/review-of-the-aid-trap-by-glenn-hubbard-william-duggan/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/streetlights-and-shadows-by-gary-klein/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/review-of-create-your-own-economy-by-tyler-cowen/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/scroogenomics/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/guest-review-of-the-nature-of-technology-by-the-romantic-economist/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/mobile-communication-and-society/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-fortune-at-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/the-invention-of-air/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/michael-sandels-justice/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/superfreakonomics-2/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/buy-my-book/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/educating-economists/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/the-hesitant-hand-2/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/seasonal-cheer/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/millennium-trilogy/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/the-starfish-and-the-spider/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/clay-shirkys-here-comes-everybody/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/what-the-dog-saw/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/the-politics-of-happiness/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/whoops-2/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/the-holy-grail-of-macroeconomics-a-guest-review/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/lords-of-finance/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/beyond-business-by-john-browne/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/guest-review-by-bill-allen-of-the-relentless-revolution/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/this-time-is-different/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/castles-battles-and-bombs-guest-review-by-dave-birch/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/decoding-reality-2/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/losing-control-by-stephen-king/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/the-company-of-strangers/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/the-end-of-influence/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/righting-the-mother-tongue/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/m-banking-an-african-financial-revolution/
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geocroc: http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/injustice-2/
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