Best Books 2004

The Confusion

Neil Stephenson

My pick for best read of the year has to be The Confusion, the second book in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Trilogy. Peopled by a fantastic mixture of real and fictional people swashbuckling pirates), it details the 17th-century birth of economics and the “scientific method”. I’m not sure which is more amazing — the fact that Stephenson has made book on economic theory interesting or that the people and events in it are firmly grounded in historical fact. Taken as an insight into a fascinating period of the past, or just as a rollicking good read, it is well worth a look.

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *