Folks, that is a whole lotta nuthin'.

The economists' proposal doesn't take that real (and probably hefty) cost into account; the invisible hand of social reform likely wasn't part of their calculations.

Then the book arrived, I started talking, and hooray! Turns out that I don’t care about the “sides” (except as intellectual propositions). 

Solotaroff’s story serves as an incendiary device in an ongoing, and important, cultural war: the battle over America's agrarian future.