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Author: Octavio Paz
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Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureateThe Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Pazs poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Pazs final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinbergerwho has been translating Paz for over forty yearsThe Poems of Octavio Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinbergers capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Pazs own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.**From BooklistAs Weinberger, long a translator of Mexican Nobel laureate Paz, acknowledges in a prefatory note to this comprehensive, dual-language retrospective, any act of translation remains forever incomplete. This is nowhere clearer, perhaps, than in this generous volume that uniquely covers Pazs full evolution as an artist, from early, timid attempts to the prose-like passages of his postwar years to his accomplished, playful later pieces. Weinberger, along with a few poet-translators, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Denise Levertov, and Muriel Rukeyser, wrestles with the reflexive forms of alliterative Spanish, the informal second-person pronoun, which has no real analog in English, and the tricky accentual stresses and shades of emphasis found in Spanish. Weinberger includes poems never before translated into English, a fresh and concise biography of Paz, and a wealth of poems written all over the world, from Delhi to Paris to Tokyo and beyond, a representative selection which attests to Pazs genuine cosmopolitanism. An incomparable entree into a versatile and globally influential poets work. --Diego Baez ReviewReaders will marvel at Pazs variety haiku-like miniatures the tempestuous book-length poem Sunstone fast-moving prose poems abstract odes extended descriptions of places in Mexico, India, Afghanistan, and Japan. - Publishers Weekly The question of who or what writes a poem, which agency creates which pieces, even if none of the players is exactly automatic, takes us a long way into Pazs work, handsomely represented in this new collection. - Michael Wood, *The London Review of Books* The living conscience of his age. - Mario Vargas Llosa
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Author: David Colander
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How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedmans prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong, David Colander and Craig Freedman argue that it never will. Why? Because economic policy, when done correctly, is an art and a craft. It is not, and cannot be, a science. The authors explain why classical liberal economists understood this essential difference, why modern economists abandoned it, and why now is the time for the profession to return to its classical liberal roots. Carefully distinguishing policy from science and theory, classical liberal economists emphasized values and context, treating economic policy analysis as a moral science where a dialogue of sensibilities and judgments allowed for the same scientific basis to arrive at a variety of policy recommendations. Using the University of Chicagoone of the last bastions of classical liberal economicsas a case study, Colander and Freedman examine how both the MIT and Chicago variants of modern economics eschewed classical liberalism in their attempt to make economic policy analysis a science. By examining the way in which the discipline managed to lose its bearings, the authors delve into such issues as the development of welfare economics in relation to economic science, alternative voices within the Chicago School, and exactly how Friedman got it wrong. Contending that the division between science and prescription needs to be restored, Where Economics Went Wrong makes the case for a more nuanced and self-aware policy analysis by economists. **Review A heartfelt call for economics to return to its methodological roots in scrupulously separating judgements about economic policy from what can be known as a matter of scientific, empirical evidence. If economists take the advice offered in this book, the subject will become more humble, and humane, as it once used to be.--Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge Colander and Freedmans wonderful book argues for a return to the discussion tradition of classical liberalism in which one offers a point of view, and recognizing ones limitations, encourages other points of view. This careful book is based on numerous interviews with participants and opponents of the Chicago School from whom the authors are able to examine and understand many issues.--David M. Levy, George Mason University George Stigler once joked that John Stuart Mill was the first economist to treat his opponents arguments with full respect The experiment, Stigler continued, was never repeated. Colander and Freedman wisely want to revive a Millean and classical liberalism in method, a respectful one, which is under attack currently by misled scientists and populists. This deep yet cheerful book focuses on scientific rhetoric and shows that well never understand economic science or policy until we recognize the force of language, in the economy and among economists.--Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Colander and Freedman argue in this fascinating book that economists began to go wrong when they tore down the firewall between theory and policy--the first scientific and objective, the second judgmental and subjective. Once they forgot that their science does not, or rather cannot, produce clear and unambiguous policy advice, all kinds of mischief followed. Drawing on the history of economic thought as well as contemporary debate, the authors provide an account that is as engaging as it is challenging to professional economists.--Dani Rodrik, author of Straight Talk on Trade About the Author David Colander is Distinguished College Professor at Middlebury College. His many books include The Making of an Economist, Redux and Complexity and the Art of Public Policy (both Princeton).Craig Freedman is the author of Chicago Fundamentalism and In Search of the Two-Handed Economist.
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