Books Briefly
BOOKS BRIEFLY Popular Wisdom ARAB FOLKTALES Translated and edited by Inea Bushnaq Pantheon. 387 pp. $19.95 Inea Bushnaq, a native of Jerusalem, graduate of Cambridge University, and resident...
...As is bound to be true of authentic folk material, there is a rich variety of styles and subjects...
...19.95 Inea Bushnaq, a native of Jerusalem, graduate of Cambridge University, and resident of New York City, has reached back to the strong oral tradition of the Arab peoples to produce a garden of delights for Western readers...
...Some of the charming tales in this collection are told in a few sentences and seek to prompt a quick smile...
...18.95...
...His "theory of resource diversion" includes three sectors: the con-tributive (which adds to the material standard of living), the neutral (where nothing is produced—the province of paper shufflers and useless information brokers), and the distractive (production that does not enhance the standard of living: the military inter alia...
...Like the little boy who doubted the emperor's clothes, Lloyd Dumas, a professor of political economy at the University of Texas at Dallas, takes a new and original look at the anemic U.S...
...New Look at the Economy THE OVERBURDENED ECONOMY by Lloyd Jeffry Dumas University of California Press...
...Explosive growth in the neutral sector ("a resource sink") and the distractive sector ("an economic parasite") drained America's resources, dulled its competitive edge, and explains the allegedly mysterious decline in productivity...
...297 pp...
...Arab Folktales can be enjoyed on several levels—as light and diverting fare, as part of the engrossing body of mythic and folk-loric world literature, or as an introduction to the sophisticated culture of the Arab lands...
...others are longer, more subtle, and designed to instruct or inspire...
...economy...
...What Keynesianism, monetarism, and all other schools lack, he claims, is an understanding of how productive resources are used (and misused...
Vol. 50 • October 1986 • No. 10
