{"id":1010,"date":"2008-07-18T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2008-07-18T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T11:58:00","slug":"in-praise-of-my-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/07\/18\/in-praise-of-my-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of My Ex"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am so very proud of a writer named Michael Heller today. Check out this review by Tim Wu in Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The last decade has produced enough books challenging received wisdom to fill a small\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand stupendously popular\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlibrary called the Compendium of Counterintuition. Here we find Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink<\/em><\/a>, which teaches that snap judgments are sometimes more accurate than studied observation. James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom<\/em> of<\/em> Crowds<\/em><\/a>, almost a companion volume, argues that a bunch of random idiots can sometimes do better than experts. Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail<\/em><\/a> makes the point that selling unpopular stuff can be a way to make lots of money. <\/p>\n

The newest addition to the collection is <\/span>Michael Heller’s The Gridlock Economy<\/span><\/a>, <\/span><\/span><\/em>which does for property rights what the <\/span>Long Tail<\/em> does for product marketing. The difference is that Heller, unlike most of the authors of counterintuitive books, is actually a leader in the academic field he is scrutinizing. As one of the nation’s leading property theorists, he has accomplished a feat. In an area that has generated very few nonacademic books, Heller has managed to pull off one of the most perceptive popular books on property since <\/span>Das Kapital<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The review is titled “Move Over, Marx.” And the book’s author is not just any ole ex. He’s my ex-husband. <\/p>\n

Michael worked enormously hard, I know, writing this book, and I am just kvelling over here to see him receive laurels so richly deserved. I’m looking forward to reading the book, and I urge folks to check it out<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Professor Heller. You are the best first husband, ever! I wish you all the joys in the world.<\/p>\n

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I am so very proud of a writer named Michael Heller today. Check out this review by Tim Wu in Slate: The last decade has produced enough books challenging received wisdom to fill a small\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand stupendously popular\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlibrary called the Compendium of Counterintuition. Here we find Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, which teaches that snap judgments are sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}