History of economic thought until the 20th century. In 1516 English humanist Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) published "Utopia", which describes an ideal society where land is owned in common and there is universal education and religious tolerance, inspiring the English Poor Laws (1587) and the communism-socialism movement. In 1517 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) published the first known argument for the quantity theory of money. In 1519 he also published the first known form of Gresham's Law: "Bad money drives out good". In 1568 Jean Bodin (1530–1596) of France published "Reply to Malestroit", containing the first known analysis of inflation, which he claimed was
Good Calories, Bad Calories "well-researched" and opines that Taubes’s conclusions are "somewhat startling yet surprisingly convincing." Journalism professor and food author Michael Pollan describes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" as "valuable" but believes that it "does not escape the confines of nutritionism." "New York Times" medical reporter Gina Kolata concluded that she was ultimately "not convinced" by Taubes’s arguments, writing that "the problem with a book like this one, which goes on and on in great detail […] is that it can be hard to know what has been left out." Laura Vanderkam reviewed the book somewhat negatively in "The American", the journal of the