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The scenes jump in weird ways that make book hard to follow.

So amazing! Likely one of the best books I have read all year.

"...an era shaped by warfare above all." Hmmm, if he is willing to include Native American vs Native American warfare in this statement then I will concede the point. Otherwise . . . the numbers don't work out.

So far, the book has been a thinly veiled love letter to Keynes. Hayek has primarily been written about in dismissive verbiage. It will be interesting to see if that changes in the last half of the book.

In world where the only books being published comb through thousands of pages in the National Archives and the U.S. Department of the Interior to highlight only the most questionable transactions with native tribes, I am happy to find an author writing about the thousands of pages ignored by other authors.

The author has made his preference of Keynes obvious. In fact, the more the author subtly derides Hayek the less confident I am in this being an even handed analysis of the two men and their economics. I will be surprised if the author ends with Hayek's theory beating Keynes.

He's writing about "Darwin's great book the Descent of Man". Ummm.... it's like he's being wilfully ignorant or how that book has been used to justify all kinds of atrocities.