Whew. What a month July was.
Most important, I finished the book that needed to be done by the end of the month—and one day early at that! Actually, I asked for and received an extra five days (until the first Monday in August), but it turned out that I didn't need them (or I did need them but didn't realize it!). I'm still not ready to talk about at length; for now I'll just say that it has more than a little to do with that fella at the right.
And now it's straight into my follow-up to The Manipulation of Choice, titled The Illusion of Well-Being, which broadens the former book's argument about value substitution to welfare economics and policymaking in general. (A short editorial on the topic was just accepted to the Review of Social Economy; I'll let you know when it's availabler online.) While I work on that, as well as editing Economics and the Virtues with Jennifer A. Baker and staring down the school year that starts in late August (with no help whatsoever from Jennifer), I am also looking into several new book projects, including several more edited volumes, a textbook, and a follow-up to the July book (which will be quite a stretch but I'm on fire to do it). Keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.
I did manage a couple blog posts during July (and one earlier today):
- One day ahead of the Fourth of July, I posted "Can Captain America Show Us How to Be More Cosmopolitan?" at Psychology Today. (Gee, someone oughta write a book.)
- I hailed Scott Snyder and Jim Lee's Superman Unchained as a fantastic rejoinder (whether intended or not) to the film Man of Steel at The Comics Professor on July 10.
- Finally, this morning I responded to David Brooks' endorsement of libertarian paternalism at Economics and Ethics.
If anything significant happens this month, I'll try to make an update before school starts, but until then, enjoy the rest of summer!
Mark D. White 
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