What I’ve been reading and not having time to read

Marcel Proust, The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts.  Early drafts of In Search of Lost Time, fragments, but still of interest to Proust lovers.

Claire Hughes Johnson, Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building is that rare thing — a good and also useful management book.  She was COO at Stripe, this is a Stripe Press title, and I was happy to see it make the WSJ bestseller list.

Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?  The authors are skeptical on the actual settlement of space, and so am I, so I am glad this book exists.  I hope somebody proves them wrong, but that is not my bet.

Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora Vargas, Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income, is a good history of ideas on the basic concept.

Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Superman Brainiac, Superman wins, but is that plausible?  Yes.  The writers note there is too much that Brainiac cannot control, most of all on Earth.

Peter Attia, with Bill Gifford, has now published Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity.

I have only browsed Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations that Built British Colonialism, but it seems to be a very good and serious treatment of its chosen topics.

Lionel Page, Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do, argues that many behavioral “imperfections” in economics are in fact rational in a broader perspective.

Simone and Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion, the authors lay out what their version of a pro-natalist world and philosophy would have to look like.

There is Shanker A. Singham and Alden F. Abbott, Trade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy: Trade Liberalisation, Competitive Markets and Property Rights Protection.

I will not have time to read Chris Wickham’s massive tome The Donkey & the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180, but surely it is worthy of note and it appears to be a major achievement.

And Is Social Justice Just?, edited by Robert M. Whaples, Michael C. Munger, and Christopher J. Coyne.