Book Update: Available for Order

You had me at "intellectually heavy," you had me again at "entrepreneurs and innovation," and you had me a third time at "institutions and culture."

(Based on the projected arrival date, I'm probably going to end up reading it on a plane ride despite your warning.)

I'd like to know who got their hands on a copy so they could sell it used for that bounty.

Congratulations on your new book, and on finally navigating it through the rapids of the publisher and of Amazon.

I very much appreciate your many insightful postings on this site, and look forward to reading both of your new books.

"I should warn you that it is an intellectually heavy book."

Now you tell me, after I already ordered from B&N.

Bummer

Arnold Kling cites findings of mine that differences in culture are more important than differences in institutions, then comments that differences in institutions are sometimes decisive. I'm grateful for the cite but would like to note that my data were from the early 1990s set of OECD countries. It is among those countries that differences in culture appear to be the more important.

But I wonder whether Arnold's example of North Korea and South Korea are really a telling example of the power of institutions. Is it the former's institutions that are holding it back? Or is it the crazy economic culture of Kim Jong-il and his clan?