Virginia I. Postrel

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  Free Minds & Free Markets: Twenty-Five Years of Reason
  

  by Robert W. Poole, Virginia I. Postrel

  ISBN 0936488727 (0-936488-72-7)
  Hardcover, Pacific Research Inst for Public

  
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  The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress
  

  by Robert W. Poole, Virginia I. Postrel

  ISBN 0684862697 (0-684-86269-7)
  Softcover, Simon & Schuster

  
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  Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we should encourage. The Future and Its Enemies is at once intellectually sweeping and reader-friendly; it has the potential to join a pantheon of books about freedom that includes works by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. --John J. Miller [via]

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  • The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress: ISBN 0684827603 (0-684-82760-3)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
  • The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress: ISBN 0684862697 (0-684-86269-7)
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  The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, & Consciousness
  

  by Virginia I. Postrel

  ISBN 0060933852 (0-06-093385-2)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  From airport terminals decorated like Starbucks to the popularity of hair dye among teenage boys, one thing is clear: we have entered the Age of Aesthetics. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work.

  We expect every strip mall and city block to offer designer coffee, a copy shop with do-it-yourself graphics workstations, and a nail salon for manicures on demand. Every startup, product, or public space calls for an aesthetic touch, which gives us more choices, and more responsibility. By now, we all rely on style to express identity. And aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes.

  In this penetrating, keenly observed book, Virginia Postrel shows that the "look and feel" of people, places, and things are more important than we think. Aesthetic pleasure taps deep human instincts and is essential for creativity and growth. Drawing from fields as diverse as fashion, real estate, politics, design, and economics, Postrel deftly chronicles our cultures aesthetic imperative and argues persuasively that it is a vital component of a healthy, forward-looking society.

  Intelligent, incisive, and thought provoking, The Substance of Style is a groundbreaking portrait of the democratization of taste and a brilliant examination of the way we live now.

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  • The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness: ISBN 0060186321 (0-06-018632-1)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
  • The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, & Consciousness: ISBN 0060933852 (0-06-093385-2)
    Softcover, Harpercollins