In the current New Yorker, Laura Miller asks: "What's behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?" Good question and I will leave it to others to decide how satisfying her answer is.
I am much too old to get my head around the young dystopians' worries. But I am greatly enjoying Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. I have no idea whether young dystopians would be moved by the historical record which establishes just how amazingly well off most young dystopians are. Ridley is a fine writer and if he cannot move the young dystopians, perhaps nothing can.
Why didn't I think of this way of describing comparative advantage? "It is common to find two traders that both think their counterparts are idiotically overpaying: that is the beauty of Ricardo's magic trick."
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A blog exploring the intersection of economic thinking and urban planning/real estate development and related big-think themes.
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