January 13th, 2011
Over at the Wall Street Journal I’ve reviewed Eduardo Porter’s The Price of Everything. I won’t pile on here.
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Great review. I only have one quibble with this:
“In a section on global warming, Mr. Porter—who naturally thinks that the world must invest billions of dollars to combat this looming catastrophe—leans heavily on reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change without mentioning the mistakes and scandals that have tainted the panel’s work.”
What I would have said (leaning heavily on Jim Manzi’s work, see here for one example: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/08/11/jim-manzi/keeping-our-cool-what-to-do-about-global-warming/) is that for a guy who claims to understand the price of everything, he hasn’t done his homework on the price of carbon reduction — it is too expensive to outweigh the benefits.
Scrutineer January 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm
“…’The Price of Everything’ amounts to a grab bag of liberal pieties disguised as logic. Illegal immigration, we’re informed, has no economic downside…”
Well done getting that past the Journal’s editors.