ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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do you have a pdf sample chapter for either?
Doesn't look from the Amazon site like there's a Kindle edition on the way. That's at least one lost sale.
I can't imagine publishing a book now and not releasing an electronic version at the same time - the people who used to buy the hardcover editions are now Kindle owners.
Looks like publishers (and maybe authors? - not sure who is driving the decision) are making the same mistakes the music and movie industries made in fighting rather than embracing digital formats. You can't even argue about copy protection with the Kindle - it's got DRM built in.
Blake,
I have a word file with a chapter I can email you. Send me an email at arnoldsk at us.net
Dan, You would not believe how lame their excuse is for not having a Kindle edition. They say they will eventually, but for now they don't want to undercut hardcover sales. They completely misunderstand Kindle owners. They have Kindle edition confused with paperback, in my opinion.
Eventually, I have to assume all these publishers will die and everybody will self-publish. The only thing the publishers have going for them now is the entrenched signaling equilibrium.
I don't get the Kindle-o-phobia either. But I will buy it anyway. Although, it will only persuade me to believe what I already believe! (see my two previous comments this past hour on your next 2 posts). But I still look forward to reading it--but I am truly starting to question why!
I think economics needs to study itself as a profession. What are the intellectual "forces" or the nature of us as humans which makes, for example, Paul Krugman see the world so differently from Russ Roberts. If these were moral choices per se, that would be understandable.
But economics is supposed to be a "social science". I will continue to harp on a statement you made because I think you were correct in making it--"studies in economics don't persuade". This gives economics a similar "feel" in practice as politics or even religion.
You have made the point in the past that economists agree on many things in reality--a good thing for its reputation as a science. But given the amount of support government-centric policies get from a large group of economists, one wonders if their commonality of views are not swamped by their differences.
You should check with Amazon. When you type in the title in "search"--or your name for that matter---you get the book with one "re-seller" offering it at $999.00. Amazon does not yet seem to have it posted properly.