Explaining my absence
OK, many of you have asked but I knew that I had to put in an explanation for my continued absence here when my mother in Turkey complained that she missed the "postcards" from me on the blog.
I am alive and well. But here are two reasons why this space will not be updated frequently over the coming months:
- I am writing a book (on globalization, what else?), and I find the blog really competes with it for my energies and ideas. I hope there will be a reason for people to want to read the book even if they have been devout followers of this blog.
- All kind of spammers have taken over the comments section of this blog, and I don't know (or have the time) to clean it up.
In the meantime, my monthly series with Project Syndicate continues, so you can always turn there for my periodic column-sized bursts.
Read more at Dani Rodrik's Weblog
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September 2, 2009 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, nobody's asked, but I also want to explain my absence from this blog. Two reasons:
1. I am writing a book (on Cocker Spaniels, what else?) and this blog is distracting. Especially diverting was the poster who told me about the veterinarian in his small town who doubled as a taxidermist. Either way, he said, you get your pet back. Disgusting.
2. All kind of nonsensical diarists have taken over the diary sections of the blog, and I have been unable (Help, Josh!) to clean them up. This one is a case in point.
Anyhow, buy my book.
September 2, 2009 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
He doesn't really even look like the dog I knew and loved (and I just took him in for a booster shot). But watch this: "Stay!" See, he never used to mind me.
September 2, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent! If the book is as zingy as the comment, Cocker Spaniels are gonna be this year's Christmas Present!
Buy now to avoid hoarding and scalping!
September 3, 2009 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I look forward to your book's publication.
September 2, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm, he left this identical post over at his own blog (the one he links to). I wonder if he even intended to post it here...
Naw, that can't be it. I bet it was Don Bacon's planned book on Cocker Spaniels that pushed him over the edge. That's certainly how I reacted.
Are ya happy now, Bacon??? Another diarist I never knew about driven from the site.
Thanks man. Thanks a lot!!!
September 2, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the update. I was wondering if you'd left permanently, never to return. I had only recently discovered you and started following you at TPM, and then...silence.
September 2, 2009 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't even know who you are.
September 2, 2009 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
How freakin' lazy can you be?
September 2, 2009 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
ready,
obviously my attempt at humor caused you to 'blow a gasket.'
September 2, 2009 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is the world 'flatter' or have they just cut down on the number of breast implants over the last decade or so?
September 2, 2009 7:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here are some thoughts for your book--
Globalization is the freer flow of goods, services, capital and people among economies. Since the mid-20th century, the steady relaxation of restrictions on such flows have been directly responsible for lifting billions of people out of deep poverty, and elevating hundreds of millions more from mild poverty to middle-class status or better.
Globalization is not for the rich, but for the poor. That is why you never hear truly poor people denounce globalization. The so-called voices of the poor are merely those who make a (very nice) living off of the politics of poverty.
Just ask any Wal-Mart shopper who used to patronize the more up-market shops.
September 2, 2009 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink