Friday, September 23, 2011

CORRESPONDENCIA LITERARIA No. 16
Libros vistos — Amsterdam, Barcelona, Leiden, París

- Sylvia Nasar. Grand Pursuit. The Story of Economic Genius. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011 [web] [video]

Todo el mundo habla de Grand Pursuit. En el avión, entre dos tweets en los que pronostica el colapso económico global, Nouriel Roubini dice que no pudo soltarlo. Nasar es la autora de A Beautiful Mind, la historia del matemático John Nash; en Grand Pursuit, intenta recrear el mundo de famosos economistas: Marx, Marshall, Keynes, Schumpeter, Fisher, Hayek, Robinson, Friedman, Amartya Sen y muchos otros. De una reseña: "[It is] not the biography of an economic genius but an economic idea: that humankind is not condemned by God and nature to a life of grim subsistence, as seemed to be the case for several millennia, but has the capacity to organize its economic affairs to provide almost limitless possibilities for comfort and fulfillment".
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- Daniel Yergin. The Quest. Energy Security and the Remaking of the Modern World. London: Allen Lane, 2011 [web] [Ed Crooks: "All about oil", Financial Times]

Cualquier estudioso del mercado del petróleo (no soy uno de ellos) empieza por The Prize, el libro de Yergin de 1991. Como bien dice Ed Crooks en la reseña del Financial Times, The Prize es un ícono, un must-read. Crooks piensa que algo similar puede ocurrir con The Quest. Algunas ideas del autor: (1) "No" a la teoría del peak oil: el petróleo y el gas estarán con nosotros por décadas; (2) "Sí" al shale gas extraído de rocas, a pesar de los riesgos ambientales; (3) Irak 2003: fue una necesidad estratégica; lo desastroso fue la improvisación posterior; (4) El compromiso de China con la energía renovable puede estar perdiendo fuerza; (5) Hugo Chávez es el Terminator de la industria petrolera de Venezuela.
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- Thomas Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum. That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011 [web] [reseña] [video]

China es hoy lo que los Estados Unidos era ... hace cien años. De la misma manera que la entrada en escena de los Estados Unidos 'sacudió' la economía y la política mundial, China lo está haciendo ... hoy. De la reseña del consultor y gurú de la innovación John Hagel (@jhagel): "The emphasis on creativity has dramatic implications for the workplace as Friedman and Mandelbaum explain: continuous innovation is not a luxury anymore – it is becoming a necessity. In the hyper-connected world, whatever can be done, will be done. The only question for a company is whether it will be done by it or to it: but it will be done. . . . So a company that does not practice continuous innovation by taking advantage of every ounce of brainpower at every level will fall behind farther and faster than ever before".

Recursos. [New York Review of Books] [Claremont Review of Books] [Reseñas Frenos & Contrapesos] [@nytimesbooks] [Revista de Libros] [London Review of Books] [Pierre Assouline] [Harvard University Press] [Yale University Press] [The Atlantic Books] [Foreign Affairs Books] [The William & Mary Quarterly] [AHR] [MIT Press] [The University of Chicago Press]._
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