Join sociologist Peter Moskos later this evening at Astoria’s Seaburn Books as he reads from Cop in the Hood, now available in paperback with a new afterword by the author. The event is free and open to the public.

Seaburn Books

33-18 Broadway

Long Island City, NY 11106

Daniel Drezner writes:

“Back in the spring, I hinted that I would be willing to produce a top ten list of must-read books on the international political economy/global political economy (IPE or GPE for those in  the know), provided there was sufficient demand.

Judging by the e-mail response, the demand is robust and quite persistent.  So I’ve decided… to postpone that list for another month or two.

Because you’re not ready yet.

Let’s face it, if you have read this far in the post, it means you’re either:

* A curious professor ready to minimize this page if anyone walks in;
* A grad student seeking the keys to success in the profession;
* An intense undergraduate student who really wants to study IPE.

(Blog Editor’s Note - he curiously leaves off eager publicist/editor curious to see if any of OUR books make the cut)

Before you are ready to ready the ten books in IPE that you have to read, you should first read these ten books on global economic history.”

So, which Princeton University Press titles made the cut? More after the jump…

This morning, Tom Ashbrook, the host of On Point (WBUR) spoke with researchers Stuart Rutherford and Daryl Collins and one of their survey participants Lufefe about what it really means to live on $2 a day.  Lufefe, along with hundreds of others, participated in a year-long survey of the poor’s financial practices. Rutherford and Collins, along with Jonathan Morduch and Orlanda Ruthven, gathered meticulous financial diaries that demonstrate not only don’t the poor live hand-to-mouth, but they manage their money well enough to save for life’s big emergencies and celebrations. If you visit WBUR’s site, you can listen to the program and also view a series of photos taken in the Langa Township where Lufefe lives and where much of the research was conducted.

Collins and Rutherford’s research is available in Portfolios of the Poor. Visit the book’s web site here: http://www.portfoliosofthepoor.com/

Image Caption: A participant in the “financial diaries” research in Madhupur, Bangladesh, March 2009. Photo: Robin Saidman /VitalEdgeAid.org

The Financial Access Initiative and Africa House Present:

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
A panel discussion followed by a book signing and wine and cheese reception

Authors: Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven
Published by Princeton University Press

Thursday, May 7th
6 - 8 pm
NYU Law School, Lipton Hall
108 West 3rd St.
New York, NY 10012

Click here to RSVP.

Opening remarks:
Rogan Kersh
Associate Dean, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

Panel Discussion Participants:
Matthew Bishop
Chief Business Writer/American Business Editor, The Economist
Daryl Collins
Co-author, Portfolios of the Poor, Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates
Bill Easterly
Professor of Economics, NYU, author of The White Man’s Burden
Jonathan Morduch
Co-author, Portfolios of the Poor, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, NYU and Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative
Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics, NYU, Director of Africa House

Over the past two weeks Andrei Codrescu has visited Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, New York, Boston, and Princeton to lecture and sign copies of The Posthuman Dada Guide. Many predict the author tour will be phased out in future years, but by all accounts, Andrei’s tour was incredibly successful. One of the interesting things to note about author tours now is that there is a parallel virtual tour taking place via blog posts, twitters, facebook, and online videos. Here… a virtual recounting of his tour culled from the web.

First, the New York Public Library event featuring Henry Alford and Paul Holdengraber with real-time drawings by Flash Rosenberg. (April 13, 2009).

Then on to Seattle’s Town Hall (April 22), City Lights in San Francisco (April 26)and Los Angeles (April 28) to participate in the Public Library’s ALOUD series (video available from fora.tv).

Also in Los Angeles, Andrei experienced Ten Minutes at Zócalo.

Back up to Portland for an event at Powell’s (April 30) for which we find many mentions at twitter and a thank you note in the “notes” section of Andrei’s facebook page.

[Updated 5/12/09] Here is video, courtesy of PDX Justice of Andrei’s event at Powell’s:

Then out to the East coast where The Big Red Apple mentions attending Andrei’s event with St. Mark’s Bookshop (May 4) at the Solas Bar in New York, which was coincidentally the name of the restaurant in Boston where Andrei and some of his audience went to eat fish and chips after his lecture at the Public Library (May 5).

The last stop on the tour found Andrei in Princeton at Labyrinth Books. In an otherwise flawless tour, this was the one stop where the planes and trains did not cooperate and Andrei was late, but as owner Dorothea noted — how better to start a dada event than to piss off the audience! The discussion was fantastic and prompted me to post a new spam hall of shame item this morning. Kim Nagy of Wild River Review was on hand and posts her thoughts here.

Is this the future of the book tour?

In case you missed this wonderful event with Andrei Codrescu and Ooana Sanziana Marian at the LA Public Library, here is video provided by fora.tv.

Tonight, Andrei will present on the subject of his book The Posthuman Dada Guide at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ. Join us if you can!

The sixth and final in a series of lectures by John Conway on the “Free Will Theorem,” will take place tonight at 8:00 PM in McDonnell Hall, room A02 on the Princeton University campus.

The subject of tonight’s lecture is The Theorem’s Implications for Science and Philosophy. In physics, Conway shows us, it the Free Will Theorem shows that there can be no mechanistic explanation for the “collapse of the wave function,” and so provides the strongest refutation of the “hidden variable” theories. Philosophically, Conway shows us the theorem leads us to infer that the future really is affected by free will decisions.

Earlier lectures in this series are available for online viewing here.

These lectures are sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, and Princeton University Press. They present the work of Conway and Simon Kochen which asserts that if experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. The Press will publish a forthcoming book on the same subject called The Free Will Theorem. For more information about the lectures, please visit the Princeton site.

The image here is a visual representation of what the lecturers present as an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme — spin, fin and twin.

On April 13th, I attended a wonderful session at the NYPL on How to Live Dada. The participants were PUP author Andrei Codrescu (The Posthuman Dada Guide), Henry Alford, and Mark Twain (AKA Paul Holdengraber). The discussion ranged from Dada to final words to meat bodies with many dips into The Posthuman Dada Guide along the way. Flash Rosenberg drew a real-time illustration of the evening and in this brief snippet, you can really get a feel for the entire segment which is available at the Live at the NYPL web site.

Personally my favorite quote from this particular segment is “You invite Dada to the party, but you don’t marry Dada…” from Henry Alford.

The fifth in a series of lectures by John Conway on the “Free Will Theorem,” will take place tonight at 8:00 PM in McDonnell Hall, room A02 on the Princeton University campus.

The subject of tonight’s lecture is The Proof of the Free Will Theorem. Here, Conway will show how relativity and the experimenter’s free will in choosing which experiment to perform yield the third axiom, MIN. He will then demonstrate how MIN, is used with SPIN, and TWIN to prove the Free Will Theorem, that particle behavior is not determined by the past.

Earlier lectures in this series are available for online viewing here.

These lectures are sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, and Princeton University Press. They present the work of Conway and Simon Kochen which asserts that if experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. The Press will publish a forthcoming book on the same subject called The Free Will Theorem. For more information about the lectures, please visit the Princeton site.

The image here is a visual representation of what the lecturers present as an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme — spin, fin and twin.

The fourth in a series of lectures by John Conway on the “Free Will Theorem,” will take place tonight at 8:00 PM in McDonnell Hall, room A02 on the Princeton University campus.

The subject of tonight’s lecture is Quantum Mechanics and the Paradoxes of Entanglement in which Conway will show how a particular case of the “Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen” entanglement, named the TWIN axiom by Conway and Kochen, is used to prove their theorem.

Earlier lectures in this series are available for online viewing here.

These lectures are sponsored by the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, and Princeton University Press. They present the work of Conway and Simon Kochen which asserts that if experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. The Press will publish a forthcoming book on the same subject called The Free Will Theorem. For more information about the lectures, please visit the Princeton site.

The image here is a visual representation of what the lecturers present as an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme — spin, fin and twin.