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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harry Veeder <[log in to unmask]>
To: Doug Henwood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Wall Street!


Do you mind if I post this in a Noam Chomsky list?
We are currently having a discussion about money sytems and your
book sounds very relevant. Or you could post it if you wish.

Harry Veeder


On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:

> Sorry to be so self-promotional, but such are the pressures of commerce.
>
> My book, *Wall Street*, has been in U.S. bookstores for a few weeks, and
> should hit UK and Continental European stores pretty soon. The official
> U.S. publication date is this Thursday, June 26. The book is a
> practical-theoretical scholarly-journalistic dissection of how the
> financial markets, particularly in the U.S. but increasingly the world,
> work and for whom. The first half is a primer on the markets (stocks,
> bonds, foreign exchange, derivatives); if you've wondered what an option
> really is, this is the place to find out. From there, the book moves onto
> more theoretical territory: a critical exposition of such pillars of
> orthodoxy as efficient market theory and monetarism, in themselves and in a
> broader political context. After thatn, I turn to the contributions of
> various renegade theorists, particularly Keynes, Minsky, and Marx. A theme
> of the book is that "finance" has surprisingly little to do with
> production, but must be considered as an institution of class consolidation
> and political control. That point is made explicit in a chapter on
> "governance" - the increasing involvement of (useless, parasitical)
> shareholders in production, and of (useless, parasitical) bondholders in
> setting public policy.
>
> For more info, see http://www.panix/com~dhenwood/Book_info.html.
>
> This week marks the beginning of a round of self-promotional events around
> the U.S., to which all readers of this are invited. I don't know the times
> of the bookstore appearances yet, but typically they're around 6 PM. Here's
> the list:
>
> fetes
> -----
> Wed, June 25, 7:30 PM    talk and party, Brecht Forum, 122 W 27th St, NYC
> Thu, June 26, 6:30 PM    journey into the belly of the beast, Harry's at
>                            Hanover Square (an old-line Wall Street bar)
>
> bookstores
> ----------
> Wed, July 2              Borders, World Trade Center, NYC
> Tue, July 8              Vertigo, Washington, DC
> Tue, July 29             Printers Ink, Palo Alto
> Thu, July 31             Modern Times, San Francisco
> Mon, Aug 4               Stacy's, San Francisco
> TBA, ~Aug 6              ?, Portland, Ore.
> Fri, Aug 8               Elliott Bay, Seattle
>
> More precise details, and any late-breaking events, will be posted to my
> website.
>
> Doug
>
> --
>
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