Buteconomichistoryis litteredwithexamplesoffixedexchange rates that came unfixed; the disuniting ofcurrencyunions, thoughrarer, happens from time to time.
The result, if thehistoryofunions is a guide, will be decades of litigation and debate over the propriety of forcing people to pay for speech to which they object.
The second half of his book, which deals with everything from political history to the decline of trades unions and the impact of a housing shortage, feels overly compressed, with too many ideas chasing too few pages.