ASET book club

Our excellent discussion of The Triumph of the City last night ranged across the 5 types of cities that Gleaser described with a focus on Detroit as a failing city, New York and Paris as curious examples of the "Consumer City" and the notion that property rights and policy play a key role in the ability of cities to "reinvent" themselves.

For future book clubs and dates for meeting read below and hit reply all with a preference for our next book and the date of a summer meeting. I will collect responses and sent out an e mail next month indicating a date during the summer with a title. If I don't hear from anyone, plan on our next meeting - Thursday Sept. 26th to read the first half of The Righteous Mind by Haidt.

We left out discussion without selecting a book for our next discussion nor a date.

Our first book discussion for fall is tentatively scheduled for Thursday September 26th. Stay tuned for further details

If you would like to get together over the summer for a summer book club hit reply all and suggest a date and book title.

Al suggested our Sept. discussion focus on the first half of The Righteous Mind by Haidt.

Click here for Al's comments

http://libertyandresponsibility.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-recommendation.html

Debbie indicated she had been reading about North Korea.

Bill Baumol's book on The Cost Disease (Kathy Ratte suggestion - we might save this for an Oct. meeting if Kathy comes to town again with the FTE).

http://libertyandresponsibility.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-cost-disease.html

The Economist Notable Books

http://www.economist.com/node/21541386

Other titles suggested by members - this contains Boyes' suggestion of The Currency Wars http://libertyandresponsibility.blogspot.com/2012/11/2013-aset-bookclub-dates-and-books.html