Well Draft Three finally found its way to the blog, late and uninspiring. For next week, I hope to make an initial round of edits, ones that will result, I foresee, in the excision of the sections on Portugal and California. I hope to read up a bit more on licensing (in general, not with respect to drugs), too.
On the book front, there are three tomes we have been tracking, and two more placed gently into the pile. They are:
(1) The Saloon Problem and Social Reform, by John Marshall Barker, 1905;
(2) Last Call, by Daniel Okrent, 2010;
(3) All or Nothing, by Jessica Warner, 2008;
(4) Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, by Gene M. Heyman, 2009; and,
(5) Carrots and Sticks, by Ian Ayres, 2010.
The good news is that the Warner book has been completed. For the others, well, the news is not so good; here's where things now stand, in terms of pages read: Barker, 78 out of 212, up from 64; Okrent, 56 out of 469 (up from 46), with the skip-ahead portion extended by two pages to pages 310 to 388; Heyman, 12 out of 200; and Ayres, 14 out of 218. Okrent is great fun, and in the most recent part gave some background on the Committee of Fifty -- I read one of their books as a component of the Five Drafts project. I am thinking of dropping the saloon book from my already circumscribed ambitions. Onwards, otherwise.
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