Volume 11, Number 4 · September 12, 1968
In the Money
By Kenneth E. Boulding
The Rich and the Super-Rich
by Ferdinand Lundberg
Lyle Stuart, 812 pp., $12.50
Permanent Poverty: An American Syndrome
by Ben B. Seligman
Quadrangle, 239 pp., $6.50
The discovery of what we have known all the time is always among the more agreeable mental exercises. The books which are the excuse for this review are good examples of this genre. They both are what may be called without derogation good economic journalism. They are both well documented, and the documentation consists either of secondary sources or the public press. Neither of them contains, therefore, any radically new knowledge, each of them is in its own way a successful attempt to bring what we already know in reasonably succinct or entertaining form to the attention of a wider public.
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