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My recording sessions with Audible, Inc. continue, and this afternoon I’ll be donning the headphones to continue reading my Panic, Prosperity, and Progress #1 national best-seller (ahem). I’ll do a post about these suddenly-interesting markets this evening.
My adoration of David Stockman’s book The Great Deformation was, I hope, made abundantly clear with my extensive review of the tome (and, judging from my Amazon Associates page, an astonishing number of folks bought the book, including one chap who bought thirteen copies!). One of the charms of the book is its colorful language. For no particular reason, I dreamed up a drinking game based on the book; and, given the future that the book predicts, it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to be fully inebriated for the days ahead. Thus: (more…)
They say there’s a first time for everything, and that applies to me today – – – although not very dramatically: I’ll be spending a portion of the afternoon doing my first Audible, Inc. session recording my book, Panic Prosperity and Progress (which, for those of you who don’t know about it, is described here………..). I’ve been delighted at the reception the book has received (Amazon has 19 reviews, last time I checked, and the average review is the highest 5-star rating. Anyway, I’ll be doing many recording sessions, because I’m told I’ll need to read for about 40 hours to get through all the sessions……….see ya later.
Most of you read my review of David Stockman’s Great Deformation last weekend. Our own beloved BDI goaded me into reading it (and I’m grateful he did), but BDI kicked it up a notch by reaching out to David Stockman to share the review with him. Lo and behold, I now find my review on his home page. I guess it’s a little odd to be star-struck by the Director of the OMB in Reagan’s White House, but I’m a child of the 80s, after all. Thank you, BDI!
This is going to be a review of David Stockman’s 768-page tome The Great Deformation, and 
although I never thought it was possible, it makes me angry to write this book review.
I’m not angry because I don’t like the book. On the contrary, this is the best economics book I’ve ever read. Indeed, it may be the best and most influential book I’ve ever read in my life. I only wish I had read it the moment it was published in April 2013. I only finished reading it today, and for the entire time I’ve been plowing through it, I’ve been trying to think of what I would say in this review.
Why am I angry, then, to write this? Bluntly stated, because nothing I can say will make what I want a reality. And what I want is for every literate person in the United States to read this book, cover to cover. I want them to read it. I want them to understand it. I want them to agitate for the changes that it recommends. (more…)
