February 2017
Beginner
352 pages
8h 28m
English
We said at the outset that we wanted to avoid rushing to solutions. And some 220 book pages later, we still have few to offer. We write this afterword in the spirit of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who called the final chapter of his novel Rasselas, “The conclusion, in which nothing is concluded.”1 We do, however, want to draw together some of the threads that run through several of these chapters but are not necessarily emphasized in any one.
First we want to emphasize the complex character of resources and constraints. These, like good and bad people, don’t always fall into two mutually exclusive groups. Sometimes there is some confusing overlap. Many of our criticisms here ...