Books: Different Perspectives?

Capitalism: The Moving Target By Leonard Silk, et al.

Quadrangle, 159 pp., $5.95 This is one book you can judge by its cover. The title and authors are a giveaway. Half of the pages are devoted to an essay by Mr. Silk. The rest are mostly reprinted from the Op Ed page of the New York Times. “The intention,” says Mr. Silk, “was to assemble a group of contributors who would look at the system from different perspectives.” Thus, Paul Samuelson, who represents the left among three Newsweek columnists, here represents a right wing —of sorts. To his left it ranges from McGovern adviser Edwin Kuh (“apart from the need to help the poor, there are other cogent reasons to tax the rich at higher rates . . .”) to Andrew Glyn’s dispassionate study on “the necessity for smashing capitalism.”

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Alan Reynolds

Alan Reynolds, National Review’s economics editor from 1972 to 1976, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of Income and Wealth.

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Capitalism: The Moving Target By Leonard Silk, et al.

Quadrangle, 159 pp., $5.95 This is one book you can judge by its cover. The title and authors are a giveaway. Half of the pages are devoted to an essay by Mr. Silk. The rest are mostly reprinted from the Op Ed page of the New York Times. “The intention,” says Mr. Silk, “was to assemble a group of contributors who would look at the system from different perspectives.” Thus, Paul Samuelson, who represents the left among three Newsweek columnists, here represents a right wing —of sorts. To his left it ranges from McGovern adviser Edwin Kuh (“apart from the need to help the poor, there are other cogent reasons to tax the rich at higher rates . . .”) to Andrew Glyn’s dispassionate study on “the necessity for smashing capitalism.”