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Dr. Marcin Piatkowski

I am a Senior Economist at the World Bank office in Warsaw and Assistant Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw. All texts on the blog are private and should not be associated with any of my employers. Email: mpiatek@kozminski.edu.pl

Friday, December 21, 2012

Books read recently

Ranked from * to ***:


  1. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (***)
  2. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (**)
  3. Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens (**)
  4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (**)
  5. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz (***)
  6. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung (**)
  7. Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today by Edward Lucas (***)
  8. Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson (*)
  9. Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It (Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) byJoshua Lerner (**)
  10. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland (***)
Posted by Dr. Marcin Piatkowski at 12:44 AM
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Dr. Marcin Piatkowski
Warsaw, Poland
Senior Economist at the World Bank office in Warsaw, Resident Scholar at TIGER economic think-tank and Assistant Professor of Economics at Kozminski University. Chief Economist of PKO BP, the largest bank in Poland (2008), Advisor to Executive Director at the IMF and economist in the European Department (2004-08), Advisor to Poland's Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance (2002-03). Ph.D. degree in Economics from Kozminski University and M.A. in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics. Conducted PhD research at Harvard University, OECD Development Centre, and London Business School. Born in 1975. Website: www.tiger.edu.pl/piatkowski
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