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Virginia Postrel's Books
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The Future and Its EnemiesToday we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our...Read More
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REASON Online, May 3, 2012
...Former Reason chief Virginia Postrel badgered her publisher into offering the Kindle edition of her excellent 2003 book The Substance of Style for just $2.99. It's a short-term sale, so hop to...
Forbes.com, April 23, 2012
...much weight you put on one of them. The first point is about the perils of vertical integration. Virginia Postrel explains it well here with reference to Delta seeking to purchase an oil refinery. Taking the same lessons we can apply them to both being a...
Winter Haven News Chief, March 22, 2012
...now is divided between those who find this social churning unnerving and those who find it exhilarating. What Virginia Postrel postulated in 1998 in "The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress" - the best...
Pajamas Media, March 2, 2012
...sites. Little funky one man or one woman sites. And some of those men and women, such as Virginia Postrel on her page, The Scene...
Modern Ghana, December 1, 2011
...to Mises, pitted against Schumpeter and contrasted with Friedman. (OK, maybe not parties thrown by Nick Gillespie or Virginia Postrel, both of whom have suave. But as for the rest of you, you know it's true.) As publisher Steve Forbes wittily observes,...
Modern Ghana, December 1, 2011
...to Mises, pitted against Schumpeter and contrasted with Friedman. (OK, maybe not parties thrown by Nick Gillespie or Virginia Postrel, both of whom have suave. But as for the rest of you, you know it's true.) As publisher Steve Forbes wittily observes,...
Daily Beast, November 16, 2011
...The new Kindle Lending Library, which offers many best-selling books for free on loan to Amazon Prime members, has thrown a wrench into the publishing industry's status quo: "[I]t's awful for publishers and authors," writes Joe Wikert plainly ...
Pajamas Media, March 2, 2012
...sites. Little funky one man or one woman sites. And some of those men and women, such as Virginia Postrel on her page, The Scene...
Today Online, February 24, 2012
...say that about the Oscars themselves. They will never be fair. But they could be more interesting. BLOOMBERG Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg View columnist. She is the author of The Future and Its Enemies and The Substance of Style...
Daily Beast, February 24, 2012
...Virginia Postrel proposes reforming the Academy Awards ceremony to drive up ratings: "American Idol" and sports events share an appeal the Oscars lack: Something is happening that affects the outcome while...
REASON Online, February 24, 2012
...LeMay and McLean Stevenson did in their entire careers. In her latest Bloomberg View column , former Reason chief Virginia Postrel suggests how to make one of the most-underperforming annual awards show this side of the State of the Union address...
Education News, February 12, 2012
...a new Georgetown study on the unemployment rates analyzed by students’ major field of study in college, and by columnist Virginia Postrel’s response to it for Bloomberg. Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, analyzing 2009-10...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, February 12, 2012
...the profound uncertainty about what skills will be valuable not just next year but decades in the future. Virginia Postrel is the author of "The Future and Its Enemies" and "The Substance of Style." Images and text copyright � 2012 by Trib Total Media,...
National Review, February 10, 2012
...notes that much of the reaction to Charles Murray’s Coming Apart has been rooted in economic determinism. Virginia Postrel’s has published the first critical review that really lands a blow against Murray. For Postrel, cognitive segregation has clear...
