> > Gianni Vaggi and Peter Groenewegen, _A Concise History of Economic > Thought: From Mercantilism to Monetarism_. New York: Palgrave > Macmillan, 2003. xvi + 339 pp. $105 (cloth), ISBN: 0-333-99936-3. Does anyone else believe that $105 for a hardback 339 page textbook (for an elective course) is an outrageous burden on students? Textbooks are designed to be owned by students, not by libraries for students to consult from time to time. This is certainly not the author's "fault" -- they have no control over book pricing with a company like this -- but might I suggest that historians of economics consider the consequences of publishing books with Palgrave Macmillan that people can't afford to read? E. Roy Weintraub