Exactly. My question was how we could move beyond that. Right now I posting to a list with 450 subscribers. Let's assume (falling into an economist's mode of thought) that another hundred have access to it from various Internet sites. I suspect maybe the majority of people will delete this without taking the time to read it. I would like to think we are not just talking to each other. That the few people who read our books or our posts will gain something in the process. The publishers market our books largely for libraries and publish them at prices that few people will accept. Small bookstores cannot afford to stock books like ours, except perhaps for Wall Street which has had some success. I have always hoped that pen-l could rise somehow to be a place for people to look for valuable information. I think that in many ways it has risen to the occasion in the case of Yugoslavia, but it has not been unique in that respect. Both LBO and Marxism have been excellent. Louis Proyect wrote: > Okay, Michael. Here's the problem. isn't a serious problem that virtually > nobody outside the academic world except someone like myself reads them? If I > had not stumbled across PEN-L and discovered all these academic Marxist debates > (and that's really what they are), how would an ordinary socialist activist > find out about them? Your books are not for sale in places like Revolution > Books. Nor are journals like Rethinking Marxism or CNS. One finds out about > them through the network of academic conferences which form the basis for > professional collaboration, as is the case for all such disciplines > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
