Summer has always been a time for reading for me. This summer I had planned on reading Isaac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky. But the stupid, dumb third-party booksellers don’t seem to know what “new” means. I have ordered volume one three times. (It has to be new! You know how I am.) The latest order won’t be here for a while. So, I have decided to do the Trotsky trilogy next summer—we’re burnin’ daylight. I have decided therefore to do Joseph Schumpeter’s (
shoom-payter—pronunciations vary)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy instead.
After Schumpeter, I’ll tackle Karl Polanyi’s
The Great Transformation. I need these two standard works of political-economy under my belt; and I’m a bit self-conscious about it.
If anybody would like to join me, I’d love the company.
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614
