Mark Calabria reviews the widely-unread Unchecked and Unbalanced. He makes it sound better than it really is.
Mark Calabria reviews the widely-unread Unchecked and Unbalanced. He makes it sound better than it really is.
Mar 1 2010
Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Maxim Pinkovskiy write, The poverty rate in 1970 was 0.398. That is, close to 40% of the entire population lived with less than one dollar a day in Africa in 1970. After a small decline during the first half of the seventies, the rate jumped to around 0.42 in 1985 and stayed more or less at th...
Feb 28 2010
I often like him, but not this column, in which he writes, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, who recently unveiled a new edition of what he calls a "Road Map for America's Future." Its willingness to reform entitlement programs is laudable. But it keeps taxes at 19 perc...
Feb 28 2010
Mark Calabria reviews the widely-unread Unchecked and Unbalanced. He makes it sound better than it really is.
READER COMMENTS
Patrick R. Sullivan
Feb 28 2010 at 3:53pm
Also, you’re on C-Span2 tonight, 6:00PM EST, discussing FPTP.
RL
Feb 28 2010 at 5:00pm
“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…
dlr
Feb 28 2010 at 5:37pm
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’.
Arnold Kling
Feb 28 2010 at 9:56pm
There is a substantial preview here. Admittedly, that is not on the B&N or Amazon site.
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