There’s simply so much wrong wih this statement:
Wherever there are scarcity and free choices, market reality automatically follows. I finished reading "Discover Your Inner Economist" by the Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen. The book was bit of a disappointment in that even though MR is the top-notch economics blog, in the long form Cowen just isn’t as good a writer as, say, Tim Worstall or Steven Landsburg.
I’ve, amongst other things, never written in the long form.
But should I persevere with that manuscript? Looks like I might get one sale at least.
Aha! We have an answer to this. He meant Tim Harford, not Tim Worstall.
3 responses so far ↓
1 BGC // Mar 4, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I think you are being a tad harsh - this statement could simply be an elision of ‘Tyler Cowen, in the long form of a book, is not as good a writer as (eg) Timmy-boy Worstall in the short form (of a blog posting).
Without wishing to arbitrate between two of my favorite bloggers, I would agree with the implied point that Tyler is (for me) a better writer as a blogger than as a book-length writer. He is very good as a book writer - but he is a _great_ blogger.
2 Ilkka Kokkarinen // Mar 4, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Hello,
My bad, I meant Tim Harford. There’s just too many Tim’s out there and I get confused.
3 BGC // Mar 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm
So I was wrong…
But does that invalidate my point? I think not.
I’ll get my coat.
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