Apples, Planets, Dollars

An English scholar and student of Ezra Pound asks the community of Getters and Spenders to hearken to the poet’s insight into the science of economics.

It is arguable that the taste for system cost many sharp minds their impact. Thus men who freely deplore the thousand years’ waste of effort patching up the Ptolemaic cosmos entailed will waste months of their own trying to spin three or four individually valid ideas into a complete economic doctrine or a hundred-legged theory of history.