Re: Good Read

For the benefit of those of us in semi-peripheral areas --

gripe on:
to order a book from amazon.com etc. adds something like 30% s&h to
the price, on top of the already horrendous exchange rate (imagine if
you had to pay something like 60-80 dollars for a paperback, which
gives a sense of the lower bound of what I'd have to pay in
ppp/earning power equivalent)

and if I were to wait for libraries -- assuming they get it -- it
probably wouldn't be till next year before the order comes through,
cataloguing is done and the book goes on the shelf.
gripe off

can you, the authors, or someone provide an 'executive' summary of
the vision?

Thanks

kj khoo


At 12:06 PM +0800 23/5/00, wwagar@binghamton.edu wrote:
>Dear WSN,
>
>       THE SPIRAL OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM may well be the most
>important book of the year 2000.  Read it.  Think.  Ponder.  Social
>scientists are infamous for criticizing and analyzing and dissecting and
>deconstructing.  These are worthwhile enterprises, within reason, but
>what we need above all are visions:  visions of sane alternatives,
>visions
>of wiser paths.  Chase-Dunn and Boswell supply such visions.
>
>       Warren