This week I had a couple of days at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel. It always has a very distinguished group of participants & at these events I always like to note what books people cite in their talks. Bill Janeway did a presentation on his own book [amazon_link id=”1107031257″ target=”_blank” ]Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy[/amazon_link], which doesn’t count.

[amazon_image id=”1107031257″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State[/amazon_image]

The others I heard mentioned were Isaiah Berlin’s Liberty[amazon_link id=”019924989X” target=”_blank” ]Liberty[/amazon_link], Wendell Berry’s [amazon_link id=”1582434875″ target=”_blank” ]What Are People For[/amazon_link], and Paul Seabright’s [amazon_link id=”0691146462″ target=”_blank” ]Company of Strangers[/amazon_link].

Wonderfully, too, Robert Johnson of INET quoted Bob Dylan in Love Minus Zero, No Limit:

In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books, repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all