Comments on: Cover design for the living dead http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee A. Arnold http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325273 Lee A. Arnold Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:52:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325273 Great cover! And Wow -- Zombie Economics arrives in the same month as the premiere of "The Walking Dead" on AMC (cable in US and Canada). This drama series is going to be VERY big. The comic book that it is based upon has gone into hardbound and paperbound collected editions. Not only that -- t is executive-produced and written by Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile among others) and Chic Eglee (The Shield, Dark Angel, among many others). http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/ What a marketing tie-in! Princeton should buy an ad! Great cover! And Wow—Zombie Economics arrives in the same month as the premiere of “The Walking Dead” on AMC (cable in US and Canada). This drama series is going to be VERY big. The comic book that it is based upon has gone into hardbound and paperbound collected editions. Not only that—t is executive-produced and written by Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile among others) and Chic Eglee (The Shield, Dark Angel, among many others).
http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/
What a marketing tie-in! Princeton should buy an ad!

]]> By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325225 John Quiggin Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:20:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325225 @Salient - sounds cool! @Salient – sounds cool!

]]> By: Salient http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325201 Salient Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:19:32 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325201 <i>And hopefully the sort that should stir up conversation if people are reading it in public.</i> My publicity-stunt-esque plan is to dress as a zombie economics professor for Halloween, and carry the book around to holiday parties. Prop suggestions welcome. And hopefully the sort that should stir up conversation if people are reading it in public.

My publicity-stunt-esque plan is to dress as a zombie economics professor for Halloween, and carry the book around to holiday parties. Prop suggestions welcome.

]]> By: NickS http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325195 NickS Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:50:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325195 Very nice cover. And hopefully the sort that should stir up conversation if people are reading it in public. Very nice cover.

And hopefully the sort that should stir up conversation if people are reading it in public.

]]> By: Alex http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325188 Alex Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:43:42 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325188 <em>Werewolf Economics: How Perfectly Normal People Become Monstrous Predators at Work</em>. Werewolf Economics: How Perfectly Normal People Become Monstrous Predators at Work.

]]> By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325152 John Quiggin Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:54:45 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325152 I hadn't seen that, thanks for the tip. As you say, always excellent, and now I can add good taste in books to his many merits. I hadn’t seen that, thanks for the tip. As you say, always excellent, and now I can add good taste in books to his many merits.

]]> By: Marc Mulholland http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325151 Marc Mulholland Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:48:45 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325151 Cool cover. Did you see the pre-publication plug by the always excellent Steve Poole in the Guardian today? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/steven-poole-nonfiction-choice-review Cool cover.

Did you see the pre-publication plug by the always excellent Steve Poole in the Guardian today?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/steven-poole-nonfiction-choice-review

]]> By: Cranky Observer http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325148 Cranky Observer Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:56:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325148 >> “What (or who) REALLY creates wealth?” > Technology devoted to satisfying human needs and wants. People creating happy, healthy, viable families, homes, and communities, and using technology and its handmaiden corporate organization and industrial society **as appropriate** to further those goals, while maintaining a long-term respect for the state of the Earth. Cranky >> “What (or who) REALLY creates wealth?”

> Technology devoted to satisfying human needs and wants.

People creating happy, healthy, viable families, homes, and communities, and using technology and its handmaiden corporate organization and industrial society as appropriate to further those goals, while maintaining a long-term respect for the state of the Earth.

Cranky

]]> By: Oscar Leroy http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325088 Oscar Leroy Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:19:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325088 Sweet cover! Sweet cover!

]]> By: James Conran http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325071 James Conran Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:42:40 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325071 Like Billikin, I find the cover to busy to be something I'd be drawn to in a bookshop, but congratulations on bringing the project this far. The "undead ideas" metaphor is in demand these days: Martin Wolf today: "Some ideas, like vampires, will not die." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdf50c80-95c5-11df-b5ad-00144feab49a.html Krugman a week ago: "But we’re talking about voodoo economics here, so perhaps it’s not surprising that belief in the magical powers of tax cuts is a zombie doctrine: no matter how many times you kill it with facts, it just keeps coming back. " http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/opinion/16krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Like Billikin, I find the cover to busy to be something I’d be drawn to in a bookshop, but congratulations on bringing the project this far.

The “undead ideas” metaphor is in demand these days:

Martin Wolf today:

“Some ideas, like vampires, will not die.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdf50c80-95c5-11df-b5ad-00144feab49a.html

Krugman a week ago:

“But we’re talking about voodoo economics here, so perhaps it’s not surprising that belief in the magical powers of tax cuts is a zombie doctrine: no matter how many times you kill it with facts, it just keeps coming back. ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/opinion/16krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

]]> By: hardindr http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325044 hardindr Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:20:09 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325044 I haven't heard much about this book (been busy at work for the past couple of months with little time for reading bookmarked blogs), but it sounds like you are describing the economic narratives on the Right in the US that Bob Somerby has discussed for <a href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh072310.shtml#SLOTH" rel="nofollow">sometime</a>: <i>If we lower our tax rates, we get higher revenue! Social Security will go bankrupt in the year [xxxx]! The top one percent pay [xxx] percent of federal taxes, a vastly disproportionate share! European-style health care has failed everywhere it’s ever been tried! When it snows in Washington, that proves that global warming’s a hoax!</i> Liberals in the mainstream US media seem incompetent in combating these ideas. Anyway, I'll have to read the book when it comes out later this year. I haven’t heard much about this book (been busy at work for the past couple of months with little time for reading bookmarked blogs), but it sounds like you are describing the economic narratives on the Right in the US that Bob Somerby has discussed for sometime:

If we lower our tax rates, we get higher revenue!

Social Security will go bankrupt in the year [xxxx]!

The top one percent pay [xxx] percent of federal taxes, a vastly disproportionate share!

European-style health care has failed everywhere it’s ever been tried!

When it snows in Washington, that proves that global warming’s a hoax!

Liberals in the mainstream US media seem incompetent in combating these ideas. Anyway, I’ll have to read the book when it comes out later this year.

]]> By: chris http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325036 chris Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:46:12 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325036 The Call of Chicago: How the Cults of the Great Old Ones Seek to Reawaken Ancient Doctrines That Will Destroy the Economy That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even fractional-reserve banking may die. There's a lot to work with here: The Shadow over Industry, The Depression on our Doorstep, At the Business Schools of Madness, etc. But study carefully: too much exposure to the source material can drive you insane. The Call of Chicago: How the Cults of the Great Old Ones Seek to Reawaken Ancient Doctrines That Will Destroy the Economy

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons, even fractional-reserve banking may die.

There’s a lot to work with here: The Shadow over Industry, The Depression on our Doorstep, At the Business Schools of Madness, etc. But study carefully: too much exposure to the source material can drive you insane.

]]> By: Salient http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325012 Salient Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:56 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325012 "Mummy Economics: the Preservation of Laissez-Faire Ideology and the Curse It Left Us With" Dead loans embalmed as derivatives! Reverence for the living gods of finance! Pyramid schemes! “Mummy Economics: the Preservation of Laissez-Faire Ideology and the Curse It Left Us With”

Dead loans embalmed as derivatives!

Reverence for the living gods of finance!

Pyramid schemes!

]]> By: Chuchundra http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325010 Chuchundra Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:48:17 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325010 I'd also like to announce my new book, "Werewolf Economics: Bloody and brutal business decisions in a dog eat dog world" I’d also like to announce my new book, “Werewolf Economics: Bloody and brutal business decisions in a dog eat dog world”

]]> By: Gregory http://crookedtimber.org/2010/07/23/cover-design-for-the-living-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-325004 Gregory Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:46:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=16613#comment-325004 As a longtime fan of EC and other horror comics, I dig that cover the most. [/delurk] As a longtime fan of EC and other horror comics, I dig that cover the most.

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