----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- I basically agree with David Mitch. But let me add a point for clarification. I think that we have two cases to discriminate: those texts which do not need any kind of specific knowledge from readers and those which presuppose some basic knowledge of economics. I can recommend Smith's Wealth of Nations even for freshman seminars, but reading, for instance, Keynes's GN without any substantial knowledge of macroeconomics is unthinkable. The same can be said of Walras's Elements. These works must read after finishing the basic courses of macroeconomics and microeconomics. Yukihiro Ikeda ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]