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Tom Barson's avatar

Brad Delong's "not worth reading" -- re the Isaacson biography of Elon Musk -- may be missing the larger lesson. The book is not to be trusted, certainly. (No authorized biographer of a living person can be trusted fully.) But the very publication of Isaacson's Jobs and Musk books, both of which have gotten more attention than any recent biography of a living or recently-living politician, tells us something important. For years, leftish development economists have been trying to tell us that large multinational corporations are the real international order. An alien arriving on earth today - not necessarily on a vehicle designed by the Alpha Centauri division of SpaceX, upon stating "Take me to your leader," would be ushered in to meet Elon Musk.

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Edward Bornstein's avatar

While I can't comment on *university* websites, there are lots of websites out there that *don't* tell you the full name of whatever it is rather than the acronym, or only have an image file of the full name, which can't be found with the search function or copy-pasted.

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