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The World Set Free (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition)
$20.95
Even good writers produce a turkey or two. This is definitely Well's gobbler. I thought he was going in the right direction when he did some character development in a couple of places; it started to get interesting, but then he lapsed back into post-atomic war preaching mode. His model for world government by a single body is pretty lame, but he came close to describing what an atomic bombing and the aftermath would be like. His description of unlimited energy from fission was completely off the mark, however. Altogether, it got pretty darn tedious after awhile.

Free: The Future of a Radical Price
$26.99
I found Anderson's book to be a good introduction to the various strategies for making money from giving away a free product. Excellent if you're trying to start a business and need some ideas.

The book says far too little about the many downsides of pricing things at zero. Anderson briefly mentions that free is a problem when it comes to pollution and other negative externalities. In the next paragraph he says that we are increasingly starting to measure and account for these negative externalities, so it's not a problem. I agree that's what should be happening, but there hasn't been a lot of progress on this so far. In some respects things have even been going backwards in recent years. There are plenty of people out there who believe that regulation of any sort is wrong, and that the government should get off people's backs. So much for trying to correct for negative externalities.

I was glad to see that Anderson mentions the downsides of free parking. However, in my opinion one short quote on this subject is far from an adequate treatment. The ideas that parking should be free and that congestion-free roads and highways should be provided as a public service by government have been central in creating the mess that is the current U.S. transportation system, as well as in the declining quality of life in the U.S. For more on this, see The High Cost of Free Parking, as well as The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape.

Anderson believes in the cornucopia economic theory, that stuff will always get cheaper because technology marches on. Please don't take this as gospel without reading some contrary views. Some things have indeed gotten better and cheaper due to technological progress. Other things have gotten better and cheaper because fossil fuels have been plentiful and cheap. Cheap oil, coal, and natural gas are by no means guaranteed to be available in the future. Fossil fuels also have plenty of negative externalities which are not adequately accounted for in modern economies. As a start on this subject, see Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers).

Walk Tall (feat. Paul Simon)
$0.00
I've always been a fan of the whole "Marley" clan. And i've been waiting for some new music expecially from Ziggy Marley, i think he's the closest one to his father's style in music, so keep up the good work in displaying this kind of music.

Free Flight (Instrumental)
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