While I try to keep my bragging on this site down to a dull roar, I can’t resist posting the blurb Tom Schelling just sent in for Drugs and Drug Policy:
A product of genius, in form and content: more than two hundred questions, all relevant and urgent, with succinct and lucid answers. When I started the book, I had strong opinions on many of the topics it covered; again and again - every time the book came into conflict with my original beliefs - the authors changed my mind. If you care about drugs, you need to read this book. If you don’t, read it anyway, just to see how it’s done.
Admittedly, Schelling isn’t an unbiased observer; I’ve known him since 1972. (I went to the Kennedy School mostly because, as a senior in college, I read “On the Ecology of Micromotives” and decided on the spot I needed to learn what Schelling had to teach.) But when a Nobel laureate calls a project you worked on “a product of genius,” I think you’re allowed to take the rest of the afternoon off. So I’m going home.
Mazel tov! Praise from the praiseworthy is beyond price.
That is very brag worthy. Contrats!
The book is in my pile. I have to find a way to move it to the top.
Congratulations! Just bought a copy and am very excited.
Mark, get him to sign a few copies, and tote them around Hollywood, bothering the stars
Very nice.
Congratulations, Mark. High praise from someone you really admire is a rare treasure.
Robeert Browning wrote about a similar experience:
What makes this even more apt is the rhyme Schelling / Shelley.
Congratulations Mark. I used When Brute Force Fails in a philosophy course (Philosophy of Criminal Law) that I taught last spring. The students responded well to it. I think this was because of its very impressive grasp of the difficulties of policing the most crime-ridden neighborhoods, and its message that intelligent strategies for probation and policing can have a real effect in reducing crime. I hope to use your new book soon.