>
> >[Mankiw's] book sucks, but it was successful,the publishers tell me.
>
> that means that according to the objective market test that we're all
> supposed to be forced to take (in this Brave NeoLiberal World of ours), it
> _doesn't_ suck. After all, it's the sovereign consumers who decide what
> sucks and what doesn't suck. Or, more rigorously, they might like things
> (like vacuum cleaners and whores) that suck. Suckiness is much less
> important than providing utility. There is no higher standard for judging
> reality than what people are willing and able to buy.
>
> BTW, I don't know about publishing advances (never having received one).
> I've heard that it doesn't come in a lump sum, that there are all sorts of
> restrictions, and (maybe) that a lot of the publishing costs are paid for
> out of the advance.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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What, there are economists who don't know how to bargain for a good contract? :-)
Ian
