Attention Economy


Saturday, October 10, 2015

Globalization and Economic Illiteracy

A wildly overrated travel writer (Paul Theroux) wades in to a debate on the economics of globalization and shows the world the extent of his ignorance:
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9469001/paul-theroux-poverty
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/free-trade-didnt-turn-america-into-zimbabwe.html

Given that Paul Theroux has proven himself to be a moron, here are a few travel writers whose works are actually worth reading:
  • Pico Iyer (Recommended titles: Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign; Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World; The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home)
  • Geoff Dyer (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi - actually a fiction book)
  • Mark Twain (A Tramp Abroad; Following the Equator)