Secondhand Pelican Economics & Politics Bargain Book Box SP4001

Secondhand Pelican Economics & Politics Bargain Book Box SP4001

Twenty-one 1960s and 70s paperbacks, eighteen of them Penguin: six Penguin Modern Economics readings in the arrow covers, Miliband’s The State in Capitalist Society, Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Packard’s The Status Seekers, Ayn Rand, Mishan’s 21 Popular Economic Fallacies and a run of Australian Pelicans including Altman, McGregor and Charles Birch. A period shelf of the arguments that mattered.

1. The Status Seekers — Vance Packard — How Americans sort themselves by car, suburb and church, written in 1959 by the man who exposed advertising. The eye-on-the-cover Pelican.
2. The Invisible Government — David Wise & Thomas B. Ross — The CIA from Guatemala to the Bay of Pigs, in the 1964 exposé the agency tried to buy up. The robot cover is a collector’s piece. Mayflower.
3. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal — Ayn Rand — Rand, Greenspan and Branden arguing that capitalism is the only moral system. The Signet edition with the factory cover.
4. The Cost of Freedom: Conservatives and Modern Capitalism — Henry C. Wallich — A Yale economist’s case for a free economy, from the Eisenhower years. Collier.
5. Australian Management and Society 1970–1985 — ed. Devon Mills — Australian Pelican forecasting the business world fifteen years out. A period piece.
6. Trade and Specialization — Ronald Findlay — Penguin Modern Economics on comparative advantage.
7. Managerial Economics — ed. G.P.E. Clarkson — Penguin Modern Economics readings.
8. Rehearsals for Change: Politics and Culture in Australia — Dennis Altman — The gay-liberation theorist on Australian politics in the late Whitlam years. Fontana, and influential.
9. The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon — The Algerian psychiatrist on colonialism and the violence that ends it, with Sartre’s preface. The orange Penguin, the edition everyone read.
10. The State in Capitalist Society — Ralph Miliband — The analysis of the western system of power that made Miliband the leading Marxist political theorist in Britain. Quartet, Open University set book.
11. The Nature of Politics — J.D.B. Miller — An Australian political scientist’s Pelican introduction, 8/-.
12. Money International — Fred Hirsch — The international monetary system before Bretton Woods broke, by the Economist’s financial editor. Pelican.
13. 21 Popular Economic Fallacies — E.J. Mishan — Machines cause unemployment, exports are good, imports are bad: Mishan knocks each one down in a few pages. The best short economics Pelican.
14. After the Common Market: A Better Alternative for Britain — Douglas Jay — The Labour minister’s 1968 case against joining Europe. Penguin Special.
15. Confronting the Future: Australia and the World, the Next Hundred Years — Charles Birch — The biologist and theologian on limits to growth, from an Australian seat. Pelican.
16. Profile of Australia — Craig McGregor — The 1966 portrait of the country, slouch hat on the cover, in the revised Penguin edition. Still readable.
17. Politics and Social Science — W.J.M. Mackenzie — What political science is and how it’s done. Pelican Original.
18. On Justice in Society — Morris Ginsberg — The sociologist’s Pelican on the idea of justice.
19. The Economics of the Common Market — D. Swann — Penguin Modern Economics text.
20. Public Enterprise — ed. R. Turvey — Penguin Modern Economics readings on nationalised industry.
21. The Labour Market — ed. B.J. McCormick & E. Owen Smith — Penguin Modern Economics readings.