《达蜜经济学》

    The book explains what we can do in a time of the Internet and new technology, where the number, diversity and accesibility* of goods and services have skyrocketed*, particularly those goods and services related to the production of information.

    We can decide to listen to very select songs on the iPod; read only blogs and receive feeds that suit our unique tastes; and participate in online groups and activities that also satisfy our own individualized and even eccentric* tastes. All at a fantastically reduced cost and ease of access.

    At the same time we can contribute to this hyper-personal economy by adding goods and services to it via our own input and participation, like by writing book reviews on Amazon.com.

    The book explains why the coming world of Web 3.0 is good for us; why social networking sites such as Facebook are so necessary; what’s so great about “Tweeting” and texting; how education will get better; and why politics, literature*, and philosophy* will become richer. This is a revolutionary guide to life in the new world.

    Author Tyler Cowen envelops his economic point in a broader discussion of autism* and its cognitive* strengths, suggesting that these strengths are particularly important in this model of economy creation, and advocating for* more use and acknowledgement of these strengths, particularly ordering and sequencing of specialized information, as well as a bias* toward objectivity over emotionalism*. Cowen also states the case that autism is not a separate condition out there from which a few suffer, but rather one point on the scale of what he calls neurodiversity*, a scale on which all of us obviously must fall, some finding themselves closer to the autism point, and others further. Despite the detours and jumps, the material is interesting and Cowen has an easy writing style that makes for quick reading. (SD-Agencies)