Why the Web is so fabulous
Who is this Keynes guy we've been hearing about? Why does everybody think what he had to say is so important to understanding and ameliorating the global financial crisis? Ten years ago the interested citizen would have had to find Keynes' General Theory at the university library and plow through it unescorted. Now anybody can buy the book online and enlist, as a guide, the most interesting and fair-minded economist writing for a wide audience today. Sign up for Tyler Cowen's book club and be prepared to discuss chapters 1 and 2 a week from today.
