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Entries for July 2008

Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions / The Mind of the Market: compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics
	Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions Dan Ariely, Harper Collins, 2008, £16.99, 278pp. The Mind of the Market: compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics Michael Shermer, Times Books, December 2007, $26 (approx £13 on Amazon UK), 306pp

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The Warhol Economy: How, Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
	Elizabeth Currid, Princeton University Press, 2007, 280 pages, £16.95.

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The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries
	A B Atkinson, Oxford University Press, 2008, 504 pages, £25.

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Prohibitions
	Edited by John Meadowcroft, The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2008, 266 pages, £15.00.

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Here Comes Everybody: The power of organizing without organizations
	Clay Shirky, Allen Lane, 2008, 336 pages, £20.

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The Wealth of Networks
	Yochai Benkler, Yale University Press, 2006, 528 pages, £25. Free download available from http://www.benkler.org/ under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sharealike license.

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The Illusions of Entrepreneurship
	Scott A Shane, Yale University Press, 2008, 224 pages, £18.

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The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
	William P Barnett, Princeton University Press, 2008, 272 pages, £17.95.

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Panicology
	Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Viking, 2008, xx + 284 pages, £18.99

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Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why we need to manage financial risk differently
	Riccardo Rebonato, Princeton University Press, 2007, 304 pages, £19.95

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