Kahn Books

not what I expected - just a single page review of a dictionary that is no longer in print. Waste of $5.95

Just a few pages of recipes. Tiny booklet; it's cheap but you don't get anything.

As pompous and unimportant a book as you will ever come across. Kahn tortues his readers with his awkward and inelegant prose as well as his inane and frankly quite obvious analysis. He counts on the esoteric nature of his subject to befundle the reader in to buying his self made image of faux intelligence.

Don't bother with a sequel. This book is sooooo outdated, there's really no hope. And the first one wasn't that great anyway.

Kahn essentially presents his recollections of what it was that he thinks he did in "helping" Keynes to write the General Theory(GT).Kahn states in this book that the elasticities developed and used by Keynes in chapter 21 of the GT ,in presenting a generalized Quantity Theory of money,as opposed to the special quantity theory of money used by all classical and neoclassical economists, which assumes that the economy is operating on the boundaries of both the static(short run)and dynamic(long run)production possibilities curves(PPF's),are mere tautologies that can have absolutely no application ,either empirically or theoretically.This conclusion ties in nicely with Kahn's claims about Keynes" being a poor mathematician by 1927".Contrary to Kahn,the elasticity conditions worked out by Keynes on pp.304-306,especially on p.306,are all based on p,which Keynes defined in chapter 20 to be an expected price equal to marginal cost.It is not possible for these results to be tautologies because they provide conditions under which unemployment equilibria occur in the money market.Chapter 20 contained similar mathematical results specifying,in the form of elasticities ,the conditions under which unemployment equilibria would occur in the commodity and labor markets.Automatically,the bond market analysis is specified specifically by the elasticities conditions already specified for the labor,commodity,and money markets that Keynes worked out in chapters 20 and 21 for expected prices.A corresponding analysis for actual prices,in the form of an elasticity result, is given by Keynes on page 116,ft.2 of chapter 10 of the GT.Kahn does have some interesting comments to make about topics in the GT which are not related to Keynes's main goal of specifying a theory of effective demand in order to explain the existence of involuntary unemployment.Thus,his varied and sundry comments on Keynes's obiter dictum have some historical value,but certainly do not justify the expense and time costs incurred to read a book that offers relatively little in the way of explaining how Keynes wrote the GT.I recommend the reader who is interested in an accurate book on Keynes buy Allan Meltzer's"Keynes's Monetary Theory:A Different Interpretation".

Those who enjoyed Kahn's earlier works will likely be disappointed in this most recent installment. It isn't written in play format, and the characters often seem to be acting weirdly out of character.

All in all, I liked her earlier, funnier stuff better.

There are no specifics, it pretends it will improve your skills.

This is not a review of the book, this is a review of your attempt to market it. There is no synopsis, no review, the excerpt couldn't be a poorer choice. Author/publisher: I don't know about a synopsis, but you could certainly have used a much better excerpt, and more than one, while we're at it. And you could find SOMEONE to review it. Perhaps someone in your publicity department? Your mom? Yourself even!

The ONLY good thing about this item was that it was so small that it was able to fit in my purse. Out of the whole book, I wasn't able to finish one puzzle. The clues were hard, had nothing to do with the answers and overall, confusing. I do not recommend this one for anyone, not even my worst enemy!!!

I got about two-thirds of the way through this book before deciding that I couldn't finish it. I was hoping to read a reasonably coherent depiction of the Neo-Tech philosophy, but what I got is a weird, weird, weird! mix of: Ayn Rand; Transhumanism; Right-Wing historical conspiracy theories; ignorantly portrayed ethnic and racial stereotypes; and despite the explicit Atheism, some quasi-religious ideas similar to those of Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Technological Singularity theory, Christian Rapture/"Left Behind" theology, and even Frank Tipler's Omega Point theory.

Now, there is no reason a priori why these elements could not have been incorporated into a mind-bending story, provided that the writer was reasonably competent and had a sense of irony. (Philip K. Dick comes to mind.) But this author (1) is an uncritical Neo-Tech true believer, despite the fact that Neo-Techies aren't succeeding in life better than the rest of us, and (2) clearly isn't literate enough to have any business writing novels, as evident by the pervasive misspellings, lack of punctation, broken sentences, etc. I also have to wonder how much of the novel's weirdness is due to the source material, namely, Frank Wallace's Neo-Tech, and how much is due to the author's particular obsessions. It's not weird enough in the right way even to be unintentionally funny. Definitely not worth buying.