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March 27, 2008
Blowing My Own Horn (or Kazoo)
Don Boudreaux
What you'll get in return for paying $44 for my book Globalization looks better and better (at least according to this short review)!
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That's it. I read Caplan's book, two of Roberts', but, to be honest, your book title never really gripped me. I'll give it a go nonetheless -- at least if enough of us do it you might spare us the Kazoo playing and get back to productivity-destroying commentary.
Posted by: Gamut | Mar 27, 2008 2:35:04 PM
Professor Boudreaux,
The British spelling of “Globalization” is “Globalisation.”
Didn’t they make you switch that, like right-hand drive, the metric system, and bad teeth?
Posted by: Mesa Econoguy | Mar 27, 2008 6:36:53 PM
Be glad you can buy it at US Amazon. It is 31 pounds in the UK. An even better deal now.
Posted by: DTT | Mar 27, 2008 9:55:51 PM
I'll make a market at 5 quid and 20.
(buying book now....)
Posted by: Mesa Econoguy | Mar 28, 2008 12:51:21 AM
I just spent 51 USD to buy this book on Amazon US and have it shipped to London. Amazon UK would have charged the equivalent of 64 USD. If I do this in bulk, will I bring these two prices closer together? And if I do that, am I, like, feeding the poor?
Posted by: mpkomara | Mar 28, 2008 3:59:46 AM
You may not be feeding the poor, but, in a small way, you are helping make global markets more efficient. Poetic, concerning the subject of the book.
By the way, I too engage in this beneficial self-interest. As long as I'm willing to endure longer shipping times, buying books from America is usually quite cheaper than buying them from the German Amazon. If I had any entrepreneurial sense at all, I'd start a small book-selling business on the side.
Posted by: Jeff Holmes | Mar 28, 2008 5:30:58 AM
In France, Amazon was recently successfully sued for undercharging for books, even though they charge nearly list price in France as required by law, because they offer free shipping.
-dk
Posted by: dick King | Mar 28, 2008 4:15:05 PM
dick King,
Well France is probably the most anti-market European nation, so who cares? Plus it has been twenty years; they're due for another revolution soon, anyway.
Posted by: Daniel Reeves | Mar 28, 2008 11:44:20 PM
