Davos Newbies

Tyler Cowen certainly knows how to write snippets that grab my attention. In one of his regular “What I’ve Been Reading” posts he notes the following:

Paradise with Serpents, by Robert Carver.  The only question is whether this is the first or the second best book on Paraguay in the English language; here is the other contender.

I hold no particular brief for Paraguay, but I now want to own the two best books in English on that largely neglected, landlocked country.

Wolfgang Münchau delivers a wonderful economist’s analogy:

The modern equivalent to “let them eat cake” is: “Core inflation is well contained.”

It’s in the service of making important points about the effects of inflation on the poor.