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About meI am an editor by profession, which makes me a reader and writer by definition. In addition, I enjoy composing music, in styles reminiscent of Hindemith, Milhaud, Stravinsky, Hovhaness, Satie, and Tcherepnin . . . and, yes, Scott Joplin.

About my libraryFor years I treated used book stores as a kind of lending library: buy a book, read it, trade the book back for "store credit" (anoher book or books). This has left me a private library of many books I have yet to read. More recently, I have found myself buying editions of books a second or third time, to read over. Hardly the most economical method of acquiring reading matter. At present I have lots of space at low cost, so accumulating books doesn't present quite the disutility it might be for others. Three thousand books? No problem. I could house ten thousand, if I could get rid of my hoard of old Macintosh computers.

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Currently readingThe Mind and Society (Trattato di Sociologia generale), Vol. 1: Non-Logical Conduct by Vilfredo Pareto
Critique of Interventionism by Ludwig von Mises
Political Economy (Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged): American Science Series, Advanced Course by Francis A. Walker

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Yes Timo,

Volney was the most famous of the Ideologues although it was Tracy who invented the word. Volney "discovered" a young and then unknown Napopleon Bonaparte during a 1793 trip through Corsica. They remained friends throughout the revolutionary period, with Bonaparte often asking Volney for advice regarding his career. Volney later convinced the other Ideologues to support Bonaparte's coup. As a reward the Premier Consul offered Volney the Third Consulship as well as the Interior Ministry. Volney declined both posts but accepted the offer to become a Senator. Bonaparte and the Ideologues subsequently disagreed over the Concordat with the Pope which effectively ended the separation of church and state established by the 1791 constitution. But their real split came with the proclamation of the Empire; in the event, Volney was one of only three Senators to vote against it--and it was their opposition to his budding tyranny that caused Bonaparte to use the word "Ideologue" as a pejorative...
I agree it's a shame Hodgskin's Popular Political Economy is so, um... unpopular. It's one of the best early statements of the nature of privilege, its macroeconomic effects on purchasing power, and its effects on the bargaining power of labor, that I've ever seen. Everything that's useful in J.A. Hobson and J.M. Keynes is there in germ form. Re your interest in *Natural and Artificial Rights of Property*, almost everything of value in it is distilled in Popular Political Economy, and better integrated into the other aspects of his thought.
hello wirkman
a serious collection. from ardrey to meredith. heigh-ho.
Awwwwww, you joined on my 60th birthday! Have come across you cause I've just bought Robinson's 'Cavender's House', a splendidly dour and spooky late poem. Like your compositional taste--why don't more people dig Hovhaness? Do you record your own stuff at all?
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