Very much looking forward to my appearance at the Arden Hills, Minnesota public library Monday night at 7 p.m. Come on down, I think it will be an “intimate” event, that is, smallish, and if you do come we’d get plenty of time to chat one on one. Bring your Haskell’s sale catalog, I’ll circle some picks for you! They also will be giving away tickets to the Minnesota Book Awards gala. If you come to Arden Hills and then we see each other at the Gala I think that will make us official Christmas-card level friends. So come on down!

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Had a great talk with Bill Ward from the Star Tribune about the book yesterday, he was asking me if I learned anything new writing the book. Well, tons, but the most revelatory didn’t even make it into the book. Because it’s so freaking dull, but like some dull things, super important.

This dull, important thing was a paper by George Akerlof called “The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism”, it was published in Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1970 and founded a concept called Asymmetric Markets. It was so important it won Akerlof the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. However, it was written about used-cars, not wine, and I’d argue after all those Lemon Laws were passed allowing people to return used cars it now actually applies more to wine than to used cars.
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