links for 2007-10-26

• Gary Burtless: Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?
• iFuntastic Auto-Jailbreaks iPhone v1.1.1, Rocks My Socks | iPhone Alley
• Nouriel Roubini: Revisiting Predictions Made a Year Ago: Who is on Earth, on the Moon and Who was a “Lunatic”
• James Fallows: How the World Works
• Matthew Yglesias: The K-Drum Challenge
• brayden: james scott and austrian economics « orgtheory.net
• Catherine Porter: The hopeless blight on our strawberries
• Gary Kamiya: How Bush wrecked conservatism
• David Ludden: Modern Inequality and Early Modernity: A Comment for the AHR on Articles by R. Bin Wong and Kenneth Pomeranz
• Felix Salmon: Blogonomics 301 With Tyler Cowen

Comments

[Ahab]

Prof. Delong:

I have printed, read and reread this article; "review of James Scott (1998), Seeing Like a State": "How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" and also James Fallows: "How the World Works" and as a very green ( and unfortunately aged ) student I am trying to synthesize the two.

I also understand you are an advocate of free trade?

I am further somewhat confused by the date of Fallows article ( 1993) and it's appearance in your list of links for 2007-10-26.

I'd be grateful if you or anyone of this community could suggest what an untutored layman might read next.

[I would actually go read the two books: Scott's _Seeing Like a State_ entire, and Fallows's _Looking at the Sun_]

Your photo of Cliff Palace leads me to recommend this very readable synopsis of the Hisatsinom: House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by Craig Childs (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/House-Rain-Tracking-Civilization-Southwest/dp/0316608173