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A review by radioactve_piano
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg
1.0
Let me be clear: I chose to give this book one star not because I thought the writing was horrible or the topic unpalatable; I merely disagreed with most of what he said. If I were to rate this book based on emotional reactions while reading it, it would have had five solid stars.
While I appreciate Landsburg's attempts to "shock and awe" the reader into a new way of thinking about economics, I would like to take him to task for two very major issues:
1) Landsburg has a tendency to point out holes in others' arguments while blithely ignoring the holes in his own. Beat down any argument you want, but for heaven's sake, don't ignore the fact that you're not fleshing out the many possibilities in your own. If he'd stated even once that there were countless other possibilities/outcomes/reasons/etc that he hadn't thought of, I would have read with more pleasure.
2) Most statements he made were merely based on his own feelings on a subject's importance/relevance. I'm not saying I'm too sentimental to place value on human lives, or that I can't abide by disagreeing with someone on moral issues. I'm saying he shouldn't have written everything as if his beliefs were the right beliefs.
I guess I just don't like arrogance.
While I appreciate Landsburg's attempts to "shock and awe" the reader into a new way of thinking about economics, I would like to take him to task for two very major issues:
1) Landsburg has a tendency to point out holes in others' arguments while blithely ignoring the holes in his own. Beat down any argument you want, but for heaven's sake, don't ignore the fact that you're not fleshing out the many possibilities in your own. If he'd stated even once that there were countless other possibilities/outcomes/reasons/etc that he hadn't thought of, I would have read with more pleasure.
2) Most statements he made were merely based on his own feelings on a subject's importance/relevance. I'm not saying I'm too sentimental to place value on human lives, or that I can't abide by disagreeing with someone on moral issues. I'm saying he shouldn't have written everything as if his beliefs were the right beliefs.
I guess I just don't like arrogance.