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Tom Slee has a weblog, and says:
Whimsley: A response to Alex Tabarrok: Update 2: The other day I was pleased that my amazon.com Sales Rank was around 42,000. It is now 3634 - entirely due to the review...
Alex Tabarrok's reading Tom Slee's No One Makes Your Shop at Wal-Mart and consequent throwing the book against the wall and desiring to kick Tom Slee in the shins has boosted Tom's book's amazon.com sales rank by a factor of ten.
If it will boost the book's ranking further, I will promise to throw one of my two copies out my sixth-floor office window and to trap Tom Slee in the Evans Hall middle south elevator for no less than thirty minutes--it is a very nice book. Almost as nice as Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter.) And good anti-market books defending social democracy in this neoliberal age are scarce (bad books are plentiful).
Such books deserve to be rewarded by the market. Let's see how we can do...
