The seemingly endless Covid Era offers an opportunity to revive my blog and catch up with people on what’s been happening since then. I’ll talk about politics and society at some later point. Meanwhile, a couple of updates.
Since I posted last, I’ve published three academic books. The most recent, “Dreamworld or Dystopia?” is a study of the so-called Nordic Model and its influence in the English-speaking countries. Essentially I conclude that the model has much to offer in terms of women’s rights, environment, and innovation—not to mention a generous welfare state—but would be difficult or impossible to transfer to the USA, for a variety of reasons. Here’s a link:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dreamworld-or-dystopia/EE7579940EBDB2BD5907E3ECAA6139D0
Before that, I published a book on Tax and Culture, also with Cambridge Press. This one is a little bit more specialized—tax isn’t for everyone—but is a good case study for those interested in comparative law even if they’re not tax experts. Here’s a link to that one:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/tax-and-culture/E7F7BB405EF552E842D3871F31229F3B
And for something completely different, here’s my earlier work on the Italian Race (that is, anti-Semitic) laws of the 1930s (don’t ask how a tax lawyer got interested in this rather unhappy subject):
Being academic books, each of the above is somewhat overpriced, although at some point used copies (not to mention paperbacks or Kindles) become available. And, you can always ask your favorite library to purchase them.
As some of you know, I also have sidelight writing novels, short stories, and other works of fiction, which sometimes overlap with my academic interests. And, like all bloggers, I have opinions on just about everything else. I’ll address these in a a later post.
