"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
...
.... i will sit down to more reading, this time marx's *capital* ...

Are you reading that for an anthropology course?

I had to read some of it for a "History of Economic Thought" course.

Pretty dull! Compared to that, John Meynard Keynes' General Theory of
Employment, Interest, and Money was downright exciting!

vince

i'm reading it for a course called ; *marx*. the course is a study of the
book, and marx's theory of capitalism (obviously). i guess that was a
little redundant. :-)
the course is offered through the interdisciniplary studies dep't. it's
been really interesting, and i have applied his theories to argue (in a
paper that i wrote for another class), that appalachia was involved in a
capitalistic economic system through it's forced involvement in the european
trade system - generally spanning from the late 1600s to the mid- 1700s.

snake