Nathan Lustig

I loved Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point, but I actually like Outliers: The Story of Success even better.   I received Outliers from my parents as a gift and finished it in two sittings.  I found myself saying “wow” and “no way” aloud many times as I was reading the book, something that a [...]

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In “Why You’ll Love Paying for Roads that Used to be Free,” Eric A. Morris delivers a compelling arguement for setting up variable toll rates for public highways that are currently free to reduce congesting. It’s a really hard sell to politicians and citizens alike, but he argues: Variable tolling is an excellent public policy. [...]

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I just finished reading The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson who was the former head of marketing at PayPal.  This book is a must read for anyone who is thinking about starting a company or has started a company. It tells the inside story of PayPal from when it was startup called Confinity all the [...]

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Here’s a list of my favorite books of 2008.  These weren’t necessarily books published in 2008, but were books that I read this year and enjoyed. Non Fiction The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007) Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy – Daniel Gross (2007) Collapse: How [...]

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