If the article was intended to be self-aggrandizing PR for his book, I don't think he would have included this line: Note that the article offered no economic

If the article was intended to be self-aggrandizing PR for his book, I don't think he would have included this line: Note that the article offered no economic or statistical evidence to back this suggestion up; it was pure theory, with a few individual case studies that proved nothing, merely illustrated the concept. I found the numbered points at the end quite insightful.