And it turned out he flubbed some of the data collection. That of course led all his attackers to say "aha disproven!" and defenders to say "no no no it's really true if you do x, y, z!" when it was really a more common academic error made with faulty datasets and didn't change his (dumb r>g) theory at all once fixed.
I actually have a final copy of it I just got from the library to give it a full read since I had skipped all the middle chapters before. I bet it's nowhere as good as
The Great Deformation at shitting all over Wall Street people/their enablers/etc. by name. Since it's just a dumb economics text that tons are dumped out every year, but the publisher got this one sold off the name. France fucking ignored the thing, even the communists.
I'm not about to get dragged into any "legitimacy of the state" or "monopoly on force" arguments.
I'm making those statement in PoliGAF now as blatant jokes and people still have to go after them. I already know that nobody is going to agree, but they seem to think they can convince me otherwise, my only goal then is to watch them squirm and create self-serving justifications instead of admitting they want to use violence against others.