My discussion of unemployment and midterm elections made the New York Times print edition.
It's worth taking a second to note that I spent something like 40 minutes working on this blog post, and it's now been viewed by thousands of people and circulated on Yahoo News and the NYT. Meanwhile, I spent about eight years writing a book that has now sold little more than 200 copies. Sigh.
5 comments:
If it makes you feel any better, you couldn't have written the blog post in 40 minutes without the eight years of research for the book.
Well, that's a good point. The eight years are in there, you just can't see them.
another note to make you feel better - i convinced an economist who studies violence and elections in africa that he should read your book!
Thanks, Kim! I know Dan Smith was plugging my theory chapter to a group in Ghana recently. I wonder what my African sales look like. Since the book probably costs more than the average Ghanaian makes in a month, I'm guessing not great.
Don't dismiss the Ghana thing. Get your publisher to market a few copies to university and public libraries in a few English-speaking SubSaharan African countries -- Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Malawi, SA, Namibia, the southern half of Cameroon, Liberia. Tell them you're a guy the NYtimes quotes. Libraries are a big deal there. You won't break sales records but lots of people will use the book.
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