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To: hunchback who wrote (58361)	1/16/2001 10:00:10 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

i DID post a list shortly thereafter...anyway, Mike's list was basically included in mine as well. add to that 'The Great Crash' by John K. Galbraith (an excellent review of the events surrounding the '29 debacle), and for economic fundamentals (Austrian theory) the main works by Ludwig von Mises ('Human Action: A Treatise on Economics' and 'The Theory of Money and Credit') as well as Murray Rothbard's 'Man, Economy and State'. if you get those you'll read for a while anyway...if you make it through the approximately 900 pages of Rothbard's tome, you can also look for his books 'The Ethics of Liberty', 'The case against the Fed' (ho ho ho...that one is SURE to produce some sleepless nights...) and 'America's Great Depression' a refutation of the popular myths about this period (current 'mainstream' economic thought propagates these false myths about the period that are largely the result of Friedman's work in the 60's...the monetarist fairy tale, which has just been revealed as such in Japan over the past decade. btw, Japan also left egg on Keynesian faces, in spades. the Austrian solution hasn't been tried yet, it's too radical presumably). note these dudes are heavy on the side of individual liberties and the free market...truly refreshing. their disdain of government in general, and socialism in particular are a breeze of fresh air compared to our sound-bite poisoned big brother society reality...if ever a totalitarian regime comes to power in the West, these books will be right atop the burning pile...

To: hunchback who wrote (58361)	1/16/2001 10:19:54 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 436258

laissezfairebooks.com Capitalism A Treatise on Economics By George Reisman Jameson Books Inc., 1998 EC7049, Hardcover, 1046 pages "...Reisman's ringing manifesto for laissez-faire capitalism free of all government intervention is at once a conservative polemic and a monumental treatise, brimming with original theories, that is remarkable for its depth, scope and rigorous argument. He rejects the Keynesian doctrine that government must adopt a policy of budget deficits to cope with unemployment, contending, to the contrary, that federal intervention in the economic system is a root cause of inflation, credit expansion, depression and mass unemployment. Reisman staunchly defends capitalists as risk-takers who raise the average worker's real wages and living standards, increasing productivity and improving the quantity and quality of goods. Socialism, he says, is the system that exploits labor and causes stifling monopolistic control. Professor of economics at L.A.'s Pepperdine University, Reisman frequently espouses unfashionable, some would say "extreme," views; for instance, he opposes mandatory recycling, defends insider trading of stocks as justifiable and beneficial and condemns laws banning child labor as an "inappropriate" response to a social ill. His call for a pro-capitalist political movement dedicated to the abolition of the welfare state, elimination of Social Security and Medicare, dismantling of public education, private ownership of all land, abolition of personal and corporate income taxes and a 90% cutback in government spending seems to put this tome beyond the pale of mainstream political debate--although it does come with advance raves from two Nobel laureates in economics. ..." Regards, Don