On Wednesday 19 February 2003 22:08, iriXx wrote: > i would also reccomend "No Logo" by Naomi Klein... Hey, didn't I do that already? Maybe I didn't. Another interesting related populist-economics book is "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto (a Peruvian reformist economist). It's about why successful capitalism seems so hard to transfer to developing countries. Fascinating theory, lots of interesting facts and plenty of the "duh!"-factor that all good economics should have. "No Logo" is surprisingly good though -- very solidly researched and really quite convincing, although I'm not sure about the chapters hitching the book to a new global anti-globalisation movement (i.e. I'm not sure there is such a strong and ongoing movement as she'd like to hope). I'm going to have to look out this book Dave recommends. Sounds fascinating. At a former workplace I remember noticing a copy of some book gathering dust which I think must have been a paperback bestseller in the early 80s, about how Japan was sure to take over the computing world during the 80s through their dominance of AI techniques or something. It turned out to be quite wrong, anyway. Anyone remember that? Or was it a whole genre in itself? Chris
