It’s not often that an academic can both write a book well, that is in a language that flows, and have us riveted to our seat throughout. And yet, that is actually what transpired in this retelling of how two protagonists fought over, and continue to fight over, the...
It’s been some time since I’ve reviewed two books in succession having to do with the world economy, and certainly the very first time each one has the word *value* in its title. The author’s previous work, The Entrepreneurial State, caught the attention of not a few...
This is a perplexing type of book to review, though based on the author’s background, it shouldn’t be. Indeed, someone with a pedigree comprising working for one of the world’s preeminent investment banking houses, as well as running two G7 central banks, would be...
I thought it was about time to highlight the exploits of an early Canadian, about whom we learn a little bit in elementary school, and not much more after that. Described in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as an “explorer, coureur de bois, one of the originators...
It’s not often I’ll read a book more than once, let alone twice. And yet, I have done just that, and realized in the process that there were parts or aspects of the book I did not recall from either of the previous two readings, which may say something about my...
It is totally coincidental that I will have devoted two of the last three book reviews to a couple of remarkable women. This quarter’s subject is truly remarkable, indeed almost larger than life. The only normal part of her life seems to have been her upbringing on...
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