Member: mercure
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TagsEast Asia (607), Southeast Asia (335), Indonesia (286), China (246), Europe (229), classical music (222), European history (145), bellettrie (131), Indonesian history (124), Java (119) — see all tags
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About me
With a full-time job I have only limited time for reading. Besides reading I enjoy art house films, classical music and jazz, economics and investment, photography, and most of all travelling.
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About my libraryI read mostly non-fiction.
I used to read a lot of books from the public library when I was a student, but you will not find these books here. When I started working, I read a lot less, but Bruce Chatwin's the Songlines inspired me to pick up reading again when I was working in Singapore. To some extend you can still find the themes from that novel back in the books I enjoy.
Mine is a reader's library. I am not a book collector. I like to read at my own pace, jumping from subject to subject. And then it is easier to have a stack of books next to the couch than that I would have to go to the public library.
Since the 1980's I have worked and travelled in East Asia a lot and you find that reflected in my library.
I use Librarything also as repository of notes on books I have read. I publish them as reviews. Do not consider them proper synopses, however.
"En veel lezens is vermoeiing des vleses."
Groups1000 Places to See Before You Die, Ancient China, Ancient History, Antiquarian Travel Memoirs, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Capital Markets, DimSum Thing, Economics, Finance / Investment, History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture —show all groups, History Fans, History: On learning from and writing history, Indonesiana, International Relations, Japanese Culture, Military History, Nederlandstalige lezers, Non-Fiction Readers, Other People's Libraries, Photography, Political Conservatives, Pro and Con, Recommend Life Improvements, Second World War History, South Africa, The Economics Anti-Textbook Group, The Hellfire Club, Travel and Exploration literature
Favorite authorsBruce Chatwin, Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites
Favorite bookstoresAthenaeum Boekhandel, Atleest, Boekhandel Het Martyrium, Select Books
LocationAmsterdam
Account typepublic, lifetime
URLs
http://www.librarything.com/profile/mercure (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mercure (library)
Member sinceDec 15, 2007
Currently readingBangkok Found: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
Islam: Art and Architecture by Markus and Delius Hattstein, Peter
Die Indoeuropäer: Herkunft, Sprache, Kultur by Harald Haarmann
Paris. Quinze promenades sociologiques. by Michel Pinçon
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posted by TukangRoti at 3:53 am (EST) on May 30, 2012
"Besides reading I enjoy art house films, classical music and jazz, economics and investment, photography, and most of all travelling."
Exactly my interests except the Jazz - that was my mother's hobby!
I am on my way to Seoul on Saturday and will visit many museums there. I have a female friend in Geleen and hope to see her this summer - I will certainly get to Amsterdam and maybe we can meet.
If you ever get to Vienna, please look me up.
greetings from Vienna,
JOHN MARSHALL
posted by johninvienna at 5:20 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2012
In any case, also appreciate your reading selections so I've marked your library as "interesting", as well.
posted by elenchus at 9:26 am (EST) on Mar 28, 2012
posted by existanai at 9:00 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2011
posted by Carnophile at 7:17 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2011
posted by Carnophile at 9:21 pm (EST) on Nov 17, 2011
I tried to find a free copy of Diamond's "Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium" on the Net but I couldn't find one. Here are two suggestions:
1) www.jstor.org if you can get to a university or other institution that has a subscription to JSTOR.
2) Even if a library doesn't have the journal, their Interlibrary Loan unit often can get a copy from another library. At least, this is true of all the university librarires I've ever had experience with. (And perhaps public libraries too; I've never tried.) Also, I'm in the US and I don't know the situaion in Amsterdam.
The full citation, by the way, is Peter A. Diamond, "Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 90, No. 5 (Oct., 1982), pp. 881-894.
He just won (with two others) the Nobel Prize.
Good luck!
posted by Adaptive_Agent at 7:09 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2010
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