Looking at the references, not many since this is a popular book, I could not find any many mentions of historians of economics, which worried me more than it bothered me. I emailed J. F. about it and he replied:

I read Ingrao and Israel’s ‘Invisible Hand’ (and I’m pretty sure I cited it in the endnotes), a few articles by E. Roy Weintraub, parts of Mirowski’s books and parts of economic histories/biographies of Jevons, Marshall, Hayek and others. But I’ve got to say I was often frustrated with these works; they would usually start off interesting but then veer off in directions that I didn’t see as important.

This, I think, is rather good. Even though there are no tips of the hat to us historians of economics in the preface or anywhere else, even though we go off on tangents that don’t seem to interest the journalist and the wider public, we are read, we are considered.

It is nice to “feel the love” from the students, and that maybe I picked the right job for me.

From Twitter Volume.

Once you place enthusiasm against its inverted self, does enthusiasm survive? One could say it’s simply dialectics, one ravages the other. But I don’t see the next step in the progression.

I see a hollow, dark place, of silence, neither positive, nor negative, instead indifferent and laughing and displaced. Maybe it is nothing to do with the song, and everything to do with where I listen to it. I am no longer there, where this satire happens with conviction and without self-perspective, so I cannot be in it, and resolve it.

(via Economix)

Enraged by the delay and missing a meeting on Monday morning, I checked the Customer Care Policies of KLM to see if I was entitled to any compensation. This is what I found:

passengers will be offered free of charge:
- meals/refreshments in a reasonable relation to the waiting
time
- hotel accommodation in cases where an (additional) overnight
stay becomes necessary (transport included)
- 2 telephone calls, fax messages or e-mails.

The item that merits comment is the 2 phone calls. I wonder what is the rationale to this. In cop movies, suspects have the right to make one phone when they are thrown into jail. KLM treats its costumers with only one more degree of generosity.

P.S. It turns out that if you don’t take the hotel, the (reasonable) meal or the 2 emails, you get nothing.

“I am not calling for a ban on this book. It’s important that you read this book. [...] And let me tell you something: Don’t dismiss these people. Don’t dismiss them.”

Violating copyright, the text is also pdfed online.

Maps locate but don’t do much to give a sense of the experience. I was too tired by the end of the day to provide more than a brainless post from whatever motel we ended up at. We did however record 22 audio commentaries, at least one on the morning of every day, plus some audio curiosities of the trip. The quality is not great. As it turns out, having the car radio on creates a lot of background noise on the recording – rookie mistakes.

First commentary:
Last commentary: