Category: Books & Resources
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Open Textbooks Nearby
No sooner do I make a post about open textbooks and the impact it could have on community colleges, then there’s a news item in the local Lansing State Journal about a retired Michigan State Univ prof that’s written an open textbook about organic chemistry that’s being used in our own backyard, as well as…
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Open Education Resources / Open Textbooks
I had a discussion the other day with a couple colleagues where the issue of textbook costs arose. I am a huge advocate of open educational resources and open textbooks (see If You Believe in “Intellectual Property”, How Do You Teach Others? – Answer: you can’t). I also know from my consulting work in the…
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Why was the Industrial Revolution British?
Why Was the Industrial Revolution Midlandish? Leigh Shaw-Taylor writes: A podcast of Professor R.C. Allen’s, 2009 Tawney lecture, Why was the Industrial Revolution British?, given at the Economic History Society annual conference, is now available on the EHS website at http://www.ehs.org.uk/downloads.asp http://www.yada-yada.co.uk/tawney2009/Tawney2009.html via J. Bradford DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles.
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A Short History of American Capitalism by Meyer Weinberg
A good book about U.S. economic history. It provides a counterpoint to the usual, cheerleader, US manifest destiny approach of many popular books. This focuses heavily on the lives of the majority of everyday Americans and also chronicles the rise of the American Capitalist model. It’s one of the few books that (IMHO) pays enough…