From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 09:38:11 EDT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee, Frederic" <leefs@umkc.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [OPE-L] Publishing and selling books on political economy Dear Mr. Levy, I found your comments on my editorial interesting. When suggesting that heterodox economists needed to buy more books, I was really aiming my comment to those who have the income to buy the books. I find that many heterodox economists who have sufficient income do not buy books or subscribe to many heterodox journals. But on the other hand they somehow expect others to do so. This is something like a quasi free-rider problem. Clearly those whose incomes do not permit the purchase of expensive books, will not be able to do so; but they could think of collective way to do so--have a library do so, form their own 'research' library and buy books collectively. The link between book sales and conferences is in terms of advertising and in terms of enriching a conference itself. I like going to conferences and seeing different book sellers--and in any case, I do not know all of the books out there that I may be interested in, book sellers at conferences help fill this gap in. Once I know that a book exists, I may buy a book at the conference or buy it later. In your e-mail you asked the right question: how can sales for Marxist/heterodox books be increased? You have my limited suggestion and I am open to others. Fred Lee Fred Lee Professor Frederic S. Lee Department of Economics University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri 64110 USA E-mail: leefs@umkc.edu Book Series Editor of "Advances in Heterodox Economics" For Heterodox Economics on the Web see http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/hetecon.htm For the Association for Heterodox Economics: http://www.hetecon.com. For Heterodox Economics Newsletter: http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn.htm http://www.heterodoxnews.com International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE): http://icape.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Levy [mailto:Gerald_A_Levy@msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:33 AM To: Lee, Frederic Subject: Fw: [OPE-L] Publishing and selling books on political economy
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