This week I just finished reading An Economist Gets Lunch - New Rules for Everyday Foodies by Tyler Cowen. I've read his other book, Discover you Inner Economist, another economics book in the Freakonomics vein. 
I've just started reading Ill Fares the Land byTony Judt. I heard about this book while listening to a recent podcast of "To The Best of Our Knowledge". Judt is a British Historian, essayist and college professor who know lives in the United States.

Renewing an Old Idea: Common Good (New York Times, March 16, 2010)

Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon - Tony Judt’s “Social Democracy” in America: A Call for Help! 

Champion of the unpopular and unfashionable, "Thinking the Twentieth Century" - The Globe and Mail, February 24, 2012

 

Currently Reading:
Canals for a Nation - The Canal Era in the United States 1790-1860, Ronald E. Shaw
Cadillac Desert - The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner
The Age of Heretics - Heroes, Outlaws, and the Forerunners of Corporate Change - Art Klein (Tribes Biography)
The Leaderless Revolution - How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century, Carne Ross
Ill Fares the Land byTony Judt