David’s Reviews > The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy > Status Update

I hate these midwit books so much. Yergin in this chapter describes the Peruvian anchoveta as a disaster caused by a left-wing government, even intimating that they were more interested in obtaining weaponry from North Korea focusing on productivity.

All you have to do is open up any book about any claimed facts in this rag and you will learn. That is just straight up filled with convenient lies.

Yergin trots out a conspiracy theory about north korea bombing a mausoleum.

Very scholarly of him.

Earlier he admitted that while Milton Friedman was " passionate" about mathematics (quoting Keats) he also couldn't pass a simple accounting exam.