Josh Bryan

Origin of Wealth is a very entertaining and captivating survey of recent developments in economics. He repeatedly takes traditional economic theories to task for failing to match real world empirical data while painting a picture of the economy as a complex, adaptive, and evolutionary system rather than the traditional overly simplistic system of market equilibrium. This is definitely worthwhile read.

I just returned from a month long vacation in Europe. My wife and I took a budget (hostels and Easy Jet) tour of Europe starting in Ireland, and moving through Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Germany, and England. The trip was a blast, but I’m still glad to be back home. You can see pictures of our trip on Jen’s Picasa album.

While on the trip, I decided to spend more time maintaining this blog. We will see how strong my resolve to do so really is in the next few months. However, since I am paying for the blog, I may as well make more regular use of it. In addition, I think the writing could prove to be therapeutic.