I think you list: Charles Sackery and Geoffrey Schneider with Janet Knoedler, An Introduction to Political Economy: Marx, Veblen, Keynes, and the Political Economy View. (Somerville, Mass: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc., 2000), ISBN: 1-878585-81-9. Address: 740 Cambridge St Cambriadge Mass 02141
But also take a look at their web site: www.dollarsandsense.org >In a message dated 6/22/02 9:10:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> A reader of my web site asks for a list of suggested >> books on economics for the lay person. I'd like to >> post such a list and hereby ask for nominees. I already >> post organizations that publish material. I also posted >> all the home pages I could find of URPE and other folks >> left of center (like PK!). If you have a home page with >> papers or articles that can be downloaded, let me know. >> >> The only totally totally obvious nominee to me is >> The Worldly Philosophers, so don't bother with that one. >> >> thanks, >> max > > >What?! No Marx?? I suppose "Capital" and other major works are too >intimidating for the average lay person these days, but how about at least >these two items which are a good introduction to the concept of surplus value: > >1. "Value, Price and Profit" (1865) >2. "Wage-Labor and Capital" (as updated by Engels in 1891) > >And I can't imagine a reasonable introductory list of readings on political >economy that does not include: > >3. Lenin: "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" > >--Scott Harrison Dr. W. Robert Needham DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Tel: 519-888-4567 ext 3949 Home: 519-578-4143 http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/fac-needham.html ["We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Herman Melville] ["Fascism should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini]
