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Beach Reads: 'Snoop'
Friday, August 1, 2008
Are there people in your office who plaster their cubicles with stuff like kitten calendars and motivational sayings? Commentator and economist Tyler Cowen introduces us to a book that wonders what all that stuff tells us about those people.
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Best Beach Reads: 'The Hakawati'
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Our series on the best Marketplace beach reads continues with commentator Mona Eltahawy and her recommendation: Rabih Alameddine's "The Hakawati."
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Best Beach Reads: Leisure class theory
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Commentator Robert Reich continues our series on the best beach reads with a look back at economics during the Gilded Age with Thorstein Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class."
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Best Beach Reads: 'Pattern Recognition'
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Commentator and writer Karrie Jacobs continues our series on the best summer beach reads with William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition."
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Best Beach Reads: 'Babbitt'
Monday, July 28, 2008
Commentator and economist Susan Lee kicks off our series on summer beach reads with Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt."
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Beach Reads: 'Snoop'
Friday, August 1, 2008
Are there people in your office who plaster their cubicles with stuff like kitten calendars and motivational sayings? Commentator and economist Tyler Cowen introduces us to a book that wonders what all that stuff tells us about those people.
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Best Beach Reads: Leisure class theory
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Commentator Robert Reich continues our series on the best beach reads with a look back at economics during the Gilded Age with Thorstein Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class."
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Beach Reads: 'Snoop'
Friday, August 1, 2008
Are there people in your office who plaster their cubicles with stuff like kitten calendars and motivational sayings? Commentator and economist Tyler Cowen introduces us to a book that wonders what all that stuff tells us about those people.
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Best Beach Reads: 'The Hakawati'
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Our series on the best Marketplace beach reads continues with commentator Mona Eltahawy and her recommendation: Rabih Alameddine's "The Hakawati."
Suggestions for books to take with you out to the beach this summer from some of Marketplace's regular commentators and contributors.
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