Reviews for The Samuelson sampler

The average rating for The Samuelson sampler based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-28 00:00:00 Rick Karson How in the world did I come to read this book, a collection of Newsweek essays on economics published between 1969 and 1981? Well, it was the most interesting thing in a pile of free books that I passed on the way home. It seems unfair to give it a star rating in 2019. It was still fun, in a way, to read how "prudent depositors transfer their assets to money-market funds that now pay up to 14 per cent." (p. 138) Clearly it was a very different time.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-15 00:00:00 John Higgins An interesting study of US energy during the 1970s energy crisis that blends thermodynamics and Marxist economics in developing a criticism of capitalism as an unsustainable system that can only survive by decimating the economy and people. But it is very dated and, because climate change was not a widely known issue, it misses a key ingredient in its fairly devastating attack on capitalist economics.