Reading, Writing, no Running

So I am on the shelf for a week or two as I recuperate from some long planned minor out patient surgery that should ultimately massively increase my oxygen intake for future runs.  But for the moment, I am home on spring break as our freakishly warm and snowless winter winds down.  Using the opportunity to finish a 5,000 essay for a festricht in honor of Bill Kovacic to be published in Concurrence and read The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America.  This is terrific book about the growth of modern branding and retailing in America and the forces that led to the passage of the price discrimination laws.  It is leading em to eventually trying to write something that is at least faint hearted praise for the Robinson-Patman Act which is  basically a generational equity argument that it allows progress toward greater efficiency in a gradual way that the change does not destroy the immediate economic and social order.  I hope this is an argument that makes sense in the internet and superstore era as it was in the early chain stores versus the mom and pop grocers.