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["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, March 2, 1997 at 17:36:31 (-0600) Mason A. Clark writes:
>Can I do better than these for my GrandFather
>re-education project?
>
>  Davidsons:  Economics for a Civilized Society
>  Eisner:   The Misunderstood Economy
>  Krugman: Peddling Prosperity

Cut out the Krugman, and substitute something keener.  Krugman's
vacuous _The Self-Organizing Economy_ takes the notion of "flocking"
and pretentious mathematics to new lows of deductive silliness, and
_Peddling Prosperity_ isn't much deeper.  Perhaps Michael Perelman's
_The End of Economics_ (Routledge, 1996) could substitute?  As an
antidote to his Rush Limbaughism, try Steven Rendall, Jim Naureckas,
and Jeff Cohen, _The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of
Error_ (The New Press, 1995).

Mason, you yourself might enjoy Thomas Ferguson's _Golden Rule: The
Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven
Political Systems_ (Chicago University Press, 1995).  It might provide
fodder in future discussions with grandpa.


Bill

--
William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
rael@xxxxxxxxxx | of reasons  of state was artfully invented, lest the people
quid faciendum? | should  understand  their own  affairs, and, understanding,
quaere verum    | become inclined to conduct them?    ---William Godwin, 1793