I'm wondering if the current financial fracas is not the time for me to try again 
to get someone interested in Giano Accame's <Ezra Pound Economista> (1995). 

Some of you will remember this book. Tim Redman does, I'm sure. If you've 
forgotten it, the appeal to publishers I wrote five years ago, abridged for the 
present audience, went like this.

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The question of Pound’s knowledge of economics has long been a controversial 
one among Pound scholars, all the more so because it is always linked to his 
relation to the still more sensitive issues of fascism and anti-Semitism. The 
matter has been the topic of some ten books within the past decade. Yet, the 
fact remains, that none of these scholars has any specialized knowledge either 
of economics or of Italy. All of them are Anglophone literary scholars, whose 
starting point is moral rather than historical. [A debatable assertion, I know, but 
I'm writing for publishers.]
      Accame begins with a survey of major writers who have attacked usury 
(borrowing Pound’s term) from the classical period to the early twentieth 
century. Then in his central chapters he examines the involvement of literary 
figures with economics in England, France, and Italy, and he explores Pound’s 
economic theories and his links to the Fascist regime. 
     Accame's exposition of Pound's economic ideas is in effect a vindication of 
Pound the Economist against his anglophone calumniators.
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I translated the first chapter of the book in 2001 but couldn't find a publisher to 
encourage me to continue. Has the passage of seven years, or the hubbub of 
the present broohah, changed the potential reception of the book in the 
English-speaking world, making the time propitious to try again? 

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has thoughts about the matter. I'll send 
Ch. 1 to anyone who asks to read it.

Wayne Pounds
Tokyo