Thursday, May 05, 2005

Check 'em out

The Fistful recommends Yahoo's webpage storage facility, and the OECD's statpages for each country.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Posts to read and think

Here, John of Belle fame writes on competing proposals for eliminating world poverty. Must read this over the weekend. Also, a book recommendation that I probably can't pass up:

On this and more, see James Scott's "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed," in my opinion the most important book written on the left in the last twenty years.

From his better half, a link to a vintage paperback site. The lesbian pulp fiction covers are not to be missed. "Satan was a Lesbian" indeed.

And back on to the boring stuff, here's an older CT post on Wolfesohn, the World Bank, and rights-based lending.