Reader's Tip

I love, love, love a good non-fiction book. It can't be a boring textbook (I mean you, de Kooning), but if the writing is good, the topic hardly even matters. I read Super Freakonomics earlier this year and thought it was a complete masterpiece.

If your taste is anything like this, my latest recommendation is Free: The Future of a Radical Price. I feel like my brain is growing a little bit each time I read it. And when is the last time you read something that was about economics?

I just finished the third chapter, which talks about the history of the number zero, pricing, and the basis for different world economies. (Really, I swear it's interesting.) And the end of the chapter is what prompted me to write... I tend to have a bit of a gloom and doom attitude about the ability of the human race to sustain itself much longer on existing resources, apparently this is called a Malthusian catastrophe. This book made some incredibly interesting points about our perceptions of abundance versus scarcity, and our ability to innovate faster than we procreate. Maybe there's hope for us. Isn't that worth a quick scan? : )