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To: Billthedrill
I would have expected to see the original edition of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty on this list, when you consider that it served as the foundation of modern supply-side economics.
47 posted on 07/27/2004 12:59:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: Alberta's Child
David Ricardo might have made the list as well. Tough to decide on only 100, actually - you have to leave out some whose influence was derivative, through other books, and include some that have a notoriety disproportionate to their actual influence - I'd place Mao's Little Red Book under that category. I have a copy (bought in Kowloon during the bad old days) and frankly, it's trite, silly, and could be said to influence anything because it seems to say almost anything.

I have something of a soft spot for books that weren't even translated into English until very late - The Thousand Nights And One Night for example. Sir Richard Burton's wife actually burnt his original translations for obscenity... She was cursed as a thoughtless Victorian prude until somebody figured out just how obscene they really were...

66 posted on 07/27/2004 1:26:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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