[PEN-L:4675] Re: what is to be read?

[Thad Williamson <thwilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would also strongly recommend JW Smith's World's Wasted Wealth 2,
seconding Curtis Moore; iconoclastic, but impressive and devastating.


Thad Williamson
National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives
Washington, DC


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 > Date:          Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
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 > From:          dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)
 > Subject:       [PEN-L:4661] what is to be read?
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 >
 > Almost forgot a favorite:
 >
 > _The World's Wasted Wealth 2_ by J.W. Smith, The Institute for
 > Economic Democracy, Box 303, Cambria, CA 93428.  A major treatise,
 > but difficult to read IMO.  Smith is looking for teachers. The book
 > is based upon the major theme in Bowles, Gordon and Weisskopf's _Beyond
 > the Wasteland_(1983), but there is an almost Adam Smith-like depth to the
 > thing.  No relationship to the conference <econ.democracy>.
 >
 > Curtis Moore
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 >
 >
 >
 > I frequently get asked by LBO subscribers what books I'd recommend they
 > read as intros to basic economics that were also politically congenial.
 > I've never come up with a satisfactory answer to the question. Any
 > suggestions?
 >
 > Doug
 >
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