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