Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 09:08 AM 04/22/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
> >I haven't found Samuelson's textbook useful for any of the
> >interesting discussions of markets, black markets, offshore havens, ...
>
> I used Samuelson's textbooks to study micro and macro in college.
> *Terrible*! Badly written, verbose, not structured well at all,
> especially for the mathematically literate student,
> and heavily tied up in the Keynesian government-knows-what's-best
> command economy view of the world. OK, the dude *did* have a Nobel
> prize in economics, but as near as I could tell, what he *really*
> specialized in was the economics of textbook sales,
These comments apply equally well to virtually _all_ the economic
primers studied in most economic courses in developed countries.
I have forgotten the name of only acceptable economic textbook I ever
found. But it was written by the same author as "TANSTAFL" a 1970s
pro-market view of the economics of pollution.
Henry Hazlitt's "The Failure of the "New Economics" is probably the
most effective cure for belief in "mainstream economics".
--
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- abbie hoffman
