----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Robert Heilbroner (ed.), TEACHINGS FROM THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHY, Norton. I agree with David Colander that they are extremely difficult to do. In my advanced HOT seminar I have used Heilbroner's THE ESSENTIAL ADAM SMITH and Keynes's GENERAL THEORY, because they are both very affordable and well worth owning for econ majors. Then I supplement with lots of articles, book chapters. I have used them also in a regular HOT undergrad survey course, along with Ricardo's Principles (the cheapee version, which obviously is not the best, i.e. Sraffa's) and I don't remember what else, but also tons of articles and book chapters. There are some old readers that I thought were good, e.g. Kapp's (or Kapp and Kapp). Other than those mentioned and those by listmembers ;), I think that Hunt's HOT text is very good, and I still think Eric Roll's is quite worthwhile. Ingrid Rima's is also well worth a peek. It depends somewhat on what you want to emphasize, etc. Mat ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]