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Since posting my longish attachment in response to
Victor's clarification about individuals versus the powerful group, I have been
reading the results of Google searches on the names of Ezra Pound and Alexander
Del Mar. As a consequence I now know that Pound got his ideas about money
and economics from C.H. Douglas, and that the United Farmers of Alberta were
reading Del Mar as early as 1913, before they hjad heard of Douglas and Social
Credit (thanks to a history by Chick Hurst). I also noticed that the most
sympathetic treatments of Pound's political idiosyncrasies are by English
professors who dismiss his ideas about money and economics, leaning on the
support of their colleagues from the economics department who lament the
fact that ound's superlative poetic skills were not supplemented by having
learned some "real" economics--specifically general equilibrium
theory!!!!!! There is one very recent book, published this month by U. of
Illinois Press, by a prof from Western Ontario, which should be reviewed and
corrected by someone who has the proper credentials for doing
so.
It's now pretty clear how the reputation for
anti-Semitism arose. Why didn't someone put
this background into our discussion long before now?
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