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there's a related book come out recently - http://redplenty.com/Front_page.html http://redplenty.com/Front_page.html - that looks very interesting. the author,
by andrewcooke 14y ago
there's a related book come out recently - http://redplenty.com/Front_page.html http://redplenty.com/Front_page.html - that looks very interesting. the author, francis spufford, seems like a very smart guy (he recently wrote a very good (imho, as an atheist) article on being a christian, related to his latest book - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/31/trouble-with-athiests-defence-of-faith http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/31/trouble-with-ath...)
[but i think this has been posted and discussed here before]
- gwern 14y ago_Red Plenty_ was great, although it's not quite what I had expected. Anyway, anyone even remotely interested in central planning must read Cosma Shalizi's http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/ http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiza... (I'd say that's much more interesting than the Chile stuff, but that's just me.)
- andrewcooke 14y agothat's great, thanks (i think i found out about red plenty from crookedtimber, but i had never seen that post). do you know of any other books that are vaguely connected? i once read "machine dreams" http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Dreams-Economics-Becomes-Science/dp/0521775264 http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Dreams-Economics-Becomes-Scien... and enjoyed it hugely, but have never found anything even remotely similar.