Final snow.
Slavery Was Not Inefficient
Cotton picking productivity in The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist
Continuing to work through this book. Here is a graph that demonstrates that the cotton economy was in fact dynamic and enormously productive. Slave owners used detailed accounting of each slave’s production and regular beatings and other physical violence to enforce ever greater levels of production.
Movie – Wild Tales
Argentine film, Wild Tales. Opens with a scene in an airplane that is really frightening because since the movie was made, the German airliner was crashed into the mountain in French Alps by a depressed guy. Scene in the movie shows captain banging on the door. Then the plane crashing into backyard of the co-pilots parents.
Completely over the top story of two guys who get into a traffic altercation on a remote highway. Both end up burned to death in a wrecked car.
Tennis must be coming
Went to gym, then breakfast at Bob’s diner. Conversation about free markets and how best to present ideas about how ideas about them permeate the culture.
Reading
