Richard Thaler, also a Nobel laureate in economics, says: “This book is a toured force by an intellectual giant; it is readable, wise and deep. Buy it fast. Read it slowly and repeatedly. It will change the way you think, on the job, about the world, and in your life.” […]
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Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldberg, Harvard Business Review Press, 2018
This book was recommended by a good friend, an IT specialist and entrepreneur operating on the fringes, at least of AI. Written by 3 economists at University of Toronto, the book delivers as promised, a simple and easily accessible explanation of what is making AI possible and the economic principles […]
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz, by Max Eisen, HarperCollins Canada, 2019
I discovered this book on CBC’s Canada Reads, where it was the 2019 winner. Max Eisen, who immigrated to Canada following World War II, wrote this book at the age of 86, to make sure his story will be told, and not die with him. He tells of a happy […]
Lessons from a Dark Time, by Adam Hochschild, University to California Press, 2018
Hochschild is Professor of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley. This book, a thoughtful and appreciated Christmas gift from Rob, is a collection of 25 essays from Hochschild’s career in journalism, addressing wide-ranging issues from around the globe. Hochschild is an insightful writer, and displays investigative journalism at its best. […]
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds, by Michael Lewis, Norton, 2017
By the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, this is the story of the lives of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, and their contributions to the psychology underlying how people make decisions. Tversky and Kahneman grew up in Israel, and started their work there before eventually migrating to the […]