Books, Books, Books
I have quite a few important - at least I think so - projects coming up next year. The scope of work requires me to take a time-out from my consulting work. It also requires me to do a lot of reading. Books are a great source of inspiration and enlightenment. They are catalysts for new ideas and solutions. They liberate the mind.
As Franz Kafka once said "A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us"
So, here I am with a stack of hardcovers and paperbacks. No, no e-Reader! Call me old fashioned, but I like the 'feeling' of holding a 'real' book in my hands. Besides that I have plenty of shelf space at home.
A first selection includes:
Karl Marx - Das Kapital
Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
Émile Durkheim - Moral Education
Aristotle - Politics
The Code of Hammurabi
Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons - The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intentions Deceive Us
Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson - Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Jeremy Rifkin - The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
Ralf Dahrendorf - In Search of A New Order
Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm - Crisis Economics
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay - The Federalist Papers
David Graeber - Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Those should keep me busy for a while.
P.S. from Groucho Marx "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." :-)
Have a nice read!
