Dear Bruce, dear SHOE list members, fascinating! While there is certainly a spooky component to it, I do find it more than intriguing, and will make the effort to read this summary "by Shirley Luckhurst": AI is obviously creative already at the point of naming itself ;) Let me use the opportunity to share attached the reviews of Harold James in the Times Literary Supplement, of the Economist, of Robert Skidelsky in the Spectator, as well here the one by Deirdre McCloskey: https://reason.com/2022/11/25/hayek-was-a-true-liberal/ Great to see this vivid reception of the biography only few weeks after the publication of Volume 1! Best regards from Princeton, Stefan --- Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolev Professor of Political Economy, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau Deputy Director, Wilhelm Röpke Institute Erfurt Advisory Board Member, Alliance for the Social Market Economy ASM Research Fellow, Hamburg Institute of International Economics HWWI https://stefan-kolev.de <https://stefan-kolev.de/> ________________________________ Von: Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]> im Auftrag von Bruce Caldwell <[log in to unmask]> Gesendet: Montag, 5. Dezember 2022 20:05 An: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Betreff: [SHOE] Welcome to the 21st century Dear SHOE-listers, I am writing to inform you of a very strange experience I just had. Hayek: A Life, the Hayek biography that Hansjoerg Klausinger and I wrote, just appeared in late November. Less than a week later a friend told me he had purchased a summary of the book on Amazon. I knew of no summary, so he sent me a link. It was supposedly by a person identified as “Shirley Luckhurst.” I clicked on her name and apparently Ms. Luckhurst was producing many such summaries of books recently published. I figured it was some shop somewhere employing many condensers and operating under a pseudonym, but the story turns out to be even better. Our editor at U Chicago Press said it was done by AI. Yikes! My mind was blown, as we used to say. Anyway, I thought I would alert book authors out there that this sort of thing exists, in case you get queries from potential book buyers. And no, I did not check out to see how good the AI summary was! Bruce Bruce Caldwell Research Professor of Economics Director, Center for the History of Political Economy "To discover a reference has often taken hours of labour, to fail to discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing Smith's Wealth of Nations Address: Department of Economics Duke University Box 90097 Durham, N.C. 27708 Office: Room 07G Social Sciences Building Phone: 919-660-6896<tel:919-660-6896> Center website: http://hope.econ.duke.edu Personal Website: http://econ.duke.edu/~bjc18/<http://econ.duke.edu/%7Ebjc18/> View my recent research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=627226<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ssrn.com_author-3D627226&d=DwMFaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=HSiJMrqy1uHGemAVptO40A&m=wbxJPKlIvavw0eBefT8tuK6n4aUF5GuBEhngk9td3R0&s=ZGoE3B5D9KYk_khrR1LFpR2Lbx-W4o75HJ7WmYwWc30&e=>