>Socratic dialogue requires you to write dialogue, which only some people have the ear for. A great negative case study for this is Jane Jacobs' second-last bo

>Socratic dialogue requires you to write dialogue, which only some people have the ear for. A great negative case study for this is Jane Jacobs' second-last book, The Nature of Economies, which was written as a socratic dialogue among, regrettably, a bunch of insufferable hip urban New Yorkers. The ideas she expresses are first-rate (as usual), but the presentation borders on the unreadable.