I'll take a copy of the first chapter. Also, please let me know if I can
help defray your costs in some way.

Carlo Parcelli
5703 36th Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Sorry, I can't help you find a publisher. I can't even get a few folks
to take this opportunity to go off on this Pound/Bailout thing in any
manner they see fit. I don't need academic, juried works here. Just
write down your impressions. So far I have just two responses. Given
this meager response, the editorial staff of FP has decided to suspend
their inclusion in the next issue and go strictly with papers on
Finnegans Wake.

CP

Wayne Pounds wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----------
> 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.
> ---------
>
> 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
>
>