Jeff Yoak (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} yoak) wrote,@ 2007-01-03 10:56:00 |
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Economics and sleep
I've been having tremendous fun rereading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. I read this book once before way back in college and had forgotten how powerful it is in its arguments and manner of communication. If you have even a passing interest in economics and haven't read it, I highly recommend it.
More practical and almost as much fun is reading Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber. Several of the books I've read on children have been helpful in providing some information that I didn't have, but most tend to be written in a style and from a perspective with which I find it hard to sympathize. For a change I feel like I'm reading something written by a scientist. I realize this author is extremely controversial, so let me add that I'm fairly close to the beginning of the book and so far most of material is laying groundwork for what is to come. So I'm not advocating things that he may advocate later in the book... but I am enjoying the process. Alex has a hard time sleeping, and I'm hopeful that this book will yield useful insights in making his life better as well as making the process easier for me and Kate.
I've been having tremendous fun rereading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. I read this book once before way back in college and had forgotten how powerful it is in its arguments and manner of communication. If you have even a passing interest in economics and haven't read it, I highly recommend it.
More practical and almost as much fun is reading Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Richard Ferber. Several of the books I've read on children have been helpful in providing some information that I didn't have, but most tend to be written in a style and from a perspective with which I find it hard to sympathize. For a change I feel like I'm reading something written by a scientist. I realize this author is extremely controversial, so let me add that I'm fairly close to the beginning of the book and so far most of material is laying groundwork for what is to come. So I'm not advocating things that he may advocate later in the book... but I am enjoying the process. Alex has a hard time sleeping, and I'm hopeful that this book will yield useful insights in making his life better as well as making the process easier for me and Kate.
