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Well written, well performed

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Revisado: 11-07-23

Narration is exceptionally good. My only complaint is the cover art proclaims it to be the 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword, which does not appear to be the case. The publication date says 2012 (that would be 40th anniversary) and I couldn’t find the foreword anywhere.

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Essential read for anyone who genuinely wishes to qualify as “educated”

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Revisado: 12-15-22

In this book, Tom Holland has accomplished both a mighty feat of scholarship spanning multiple millennia of history and philosophy and a thoroughly accessible work of compelling narrative.

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Diagnosis spot on, prescription lacks nuance, still worthwhile

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Revisado: 05-07-22

I absolutely loved 95% of this book. Cassidy’s review of economic thought and thinkers is one of the most complete, thoughtful and nuanced compilations I’ve ever encountered. His critique of utopian economics is so blatantly and incisively on point that I found myself wanting to shout “amen” in some spots. Only in the conclusion of the book did he lose me; rather than grapple with the fascinating question of how can governments facilitate, harness and optimize the inherent power of markets, and correct for their plainly manifest shortcomings, he seems to fall back on a simple line of prescriptive and proscriptive mandates to simply “force” decision makers to do things the “right” way. Perhaps because I listened to this in 2022, rather than in 2009 when it was written, the entire conclusion seemed dated, overly simplistic and almost hostile to some of the ideas and their proponents which he had spent the entire book to that point carefully portraying and articulating. So much promise in the buildup, only to throw it all away in the end! Nevertheless—all that being said—I highly recommend this book as a useful and insightful synthesis of 19th, 20th and early 21st century economic thought. Despite its flaws, still one of the best, most comprehensive reads on modern economic thought.

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Not “best ever”, but I liked this book even more than I thought I would

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Revisado: 06-01-21

Fascinating historical account of significant developments in, well, precision. Which is to say, the book is more or less what its title suggests.
I do think the author saved the best for last. The final chapter—contrasting the impermanence of our “precise” works with the timeless resilience of nature—hints at an interesting metaphysical point that is more fully explored in the prologue: that virtually everything we observe, measure, or comprehend about the world around us is fundamentally tied to, and bound up in, time itself. Worth a read/listen.

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