Books by Daniel W. Drezner
Found 4 books
The subtitle of this new and fascinating volume is How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas . Think of this as an update of Richard Posner’s work on public intellectuals, but explaining where a world of social media and higher income inequality and greater polarization has put us. Wisely, Drezner does not idealize the milieu of Susan Sontag and the Commentary crowd, but still some things have become worse, due largely to the lack of trusted gatekeeper...
4. Daniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry, due out in April you can now pre-order .
My take on all this is to prefer a higher-trust-in-experts equilibrium for its practical properties, yet without believing the trust actually is deserved, giving me again a slight affinity with Strauss . Is there an equilibrium where a high level of trust can be maintained more or less forever? Or is it like an optimal resource extraction problem, namely that most kinds of trust end up being cashed in, you just hope it was for some good purpose (public support for the bailouts to avoid another...
First there are the economics books, including books by people I know, including Piketty, The Second Machine Age , Tim Harford’s wonderful macro explainer , Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down , Lane Kenworthy on social democracy , The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge, Daniel Drezner The System Worked , and Frank Buckley on why the Canadian system of government is better . And Russ Roberts, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and H...
Daniel W. Drezner, The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression .
That is the new and excellent book by Daniel W. Drezner and the subtitle is How the World Stopped Another Great Depression . It is largely if not entirely correct, here is a summary excerpt:
This Drezner piece (pdf) indicates that applied sanctions don’t usually work, but the threat of sanctions can be effective. Here is Dan on “smart sanctions,” (pdf) which are not in general effective. Here is Dan’s book The Sanctions Paradox . Here is Dan on Twitter . I hereby request a new article from Dan on sanctions, as they might be applied to Russia. Here is a short BBC piece on the possible economic impact of sanctions today.
That is a new pocket-sized book by the excellent Daniel Drezner and it is indeed about zombies: