Pulitzer Prize: Close but No Cigar!

My thanks to the organizers of this year's Pulitzers for picking my book about the financial crisis, "How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities," as a finalist in the category of general nonfiction. In its citation, the prize committee said "How Markets Fail" combined "solid research and precise documentation to reveal not only a gripping human drama but also a tense clash of ideas."

I would like to extend my congratulations to David E. Hoffman, whose book "The Dead Hand: The Untold...