Diana In 1933 Pound published an essay entitled "ABC of Economics". It is reprinted in "Ezra Pound: Selected Prose, 1909-1965" edited by William Cookson and published by New Directions. I have seen this book catalogued as "Ezra Pound: Selected Prose, 1909-1965" and as "Selected Prose, 1909-1965 of Ezra Pound". It is probably safer to inquire with the editor's name first. Pound was basically concerned with how Governments' controlled the availability of money. He believed that the government should ensure a ready supply of "money" at the "natural rate of increase". When some agency, banks for instance, controlled the availability of money and charged a rate of interest for this money that was beyond the "natural rate of increase" Pound said this was Usury. Pound, although born in rural Idaho, was very much an urbanite and was concerned with primarily industrial/urban economics and not agricultural. In this he was following all of the turn of the century economists. Pound in very late life modified slightly his stance on usury. In the preface to "Ezra Pound: Selected Prose, 1909-1965" Pound writes in 1972 re USURY: I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. The cause is AVARICE. Rick Seddon McIntosh, NM