Wednesday, November 12, 2008

On my Reading List for 2009

Matt Kahn came over from UCLA to give a talk yesterday. He plugged his new book with Dora Costa:



Social Science and the Civil War. Doesn't get any better than that...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"This impressive study, based on a random sample of forty thousand Civil War soldiers both black and white"

What? 40,000 soldiers? Did they start working on this book when they were civil war soldiers themselves?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0691137048/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Thank you for mentioning this book. Looks interesting. And possibly timely.

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