Author: Ann Pettifor Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have some mixed feelings about this book. It’s only 160 pages long (not counting references), and it reads like a very long opinion piece. While I like short, concise books, I feel that this was more of the former and not enough of the latter. The main points of... Continue Reading →
Author: Adrian Wooldridge Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 I had mixed feelings about this book. I’ve read both The Tyranny of Merit and The Meritocracy Trap. The first covers how meritocracy is a double-edged sword that both rewards people for effort but can punish them for failure and blame them for that outcome. The second reviews how the... Continue Reading →
Author: James C. Scott Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ When I started this book, I thought it would be a slightly dry and moderately vain attempt by a Political Scientist to stretch into several other social sciences to cobble together a mildly interesting theory explaining things that happened thousands of years ago that likely had little relevance today.... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on the non-fiction books I finished in January
The Kat Bite 