ARNOLD KLING
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The Top Political Contributors
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Gender and the New Commanding Heights
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Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
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Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
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Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
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The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
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The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
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Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
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The Theory of Time and Frittering
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Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
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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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Also, you're on C-Span2 tonight, 6:00PM EST, discussing FPTP.
"Widely unread" is a tricky concept. If you look at the population of the USA, even a Harry Potter novel is "widely unread" when calculated as a percentage of the literate populace that has actually read it.
You might want some quantification instead, like:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #120,921 in Books
or
#67 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > Democracy
Actually, this is not that low a ranking, though of course I understand if you'd rather sell as well as J. K. Rowling, or even Thomas Sowell.
For comparison:
The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan): Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,489 in Books
#97 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > Democracy
And Bryan has the advantage of a Kindle edition!
So perhaps it's not so unread after all...
Well, I said this before, but I'll say it again. Your publisher is doing you a real disservice by not allowing Google books or B&N or Amazon to let people read a portion of your book on-line before they decide if they want to buy or not.
Who is going to buy a pig in a poke? Tell your publisher to let people read the first 20 pages or so, and 'get hooked'.
There is a substantial preview here. Admittedly, that is not on the B&N or Amazon site.