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Saifedean Ammous of course is the author of the amazing book The Bitcoin Standard, a book that I owe a lot to.
I pre-ordered The Gold Standard from his store. Here's what he says:
What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education?
In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history that is one-third history, one-third novel, and one-third economic analysis. In 1911, French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot partners with the Wright brothers to build the Blériot Transport Corporation (BTC), an airplane-based decentralized peer-to-peer gold-settlement network.
I have all his books, and recommend The Bitcoin Standard to everyone I know that has any interest at all in bitcoin.
Except for Principles of Economics. I bought it but just haven't been able to get into it. Maybe because it's more textbook style.
Very. I v much liked the first four (freely available) chapters, and I've been waiting a year. It better show up before Christmas!
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I was very interested about reading "The Gold Standard", until I was asked by some stackers to review his critics on Milei. The fact all of his articles on the matter were complete and absolute bullshit, down to every letter, made me seriously doubt any of his other works. I mean, I know what to criticize about Milei's movement myself because I lived it in first person, I was part of it. There are actual things that can be said. I do it myself on twitter all the time. There are severe flaws that still pose an existential risk to the movement. Yet, while perfectly valid points exist, not only Saifedean skillfully managed to tackle none, but devoted exclusively to distort, and at some points outright lying, on all and every single of the points he treated. His articles are so perfectly wrong, so densely wrong, and he expressed such a prodigious combo of ignorance and misunderstanding with such a level of hubris, that I could not take him seriously at anything anymore.
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