About a year ago, I asked blog readers to help me pick a title for my book. Now Justin Fox is offering me a catchy title and co-author:
I’m thrilled to announce that Bryan and I will be collaborating on our next book project, Good Times: Why Absolute Monarchy and the Feudal Economy Weren’t So Bad After All.
Read the whole thing, it’s funny.
Apr 26 2007
I just finished The Difference, by Scott E. Page. I cannot tell whether he has new ideas, or simply weird packaging for ideas that are not very new. He talks so much about prediction markets, sources of cognitive bias, and aggregation properties of voting that it shocked me not to see Caplan or Hanson in the index.Fr...
Apr 26 2007
Here's Robin Hanson making a point I always tell my labor students: The best education in the world is already free of charge. Just go to the best university in the world and start attending classes. Stay as long as you want, and study everything that interests you. No one will ever "card" you. The only problem is ...
Apr 26 2007
About a year ago, I asked blog readers to help me pick a title for my book. Now Justin Fox is offering me a catchy title and co-author: I'm thrilled to announce that Bryan and I will be collaborating on our next book project, Good Times: Why Absolute Monarchy and the Feudal Economy Weren't So Bad After All. Read the w...
READER COMMENTS
Fazal Majid
Apr 26 2007 at 8:58pm
Actually, absolute monarchy was an improvement over feudalism, because the king focused his energy on oppressing the barons, who had less time to oppress their serfs. What do you think the Magna Carta was, a bill of rights? No, of course not, just a means for feudal lords to prevent royal interference with the unfettered exploitations of their fiefs.
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