According to Steven Taylor at Poliblogger.com (via Virginia Postrel and Jane Galt), a drive is underway to re-stock the library at Baghdad U. They say they need medical, math, and science books, preferably no more than 5 years old. The effort is apparently being headed up by Dr. Safaa al-Hamdani, professor of Biology at Jacksonville State.
While medicine, math, and science are all good and well, good economics books are more important because the functioning institutions of commercial society are necessary for medicine, math, and science to have any practical application. Anyone with a few dollars, a generous heart, and a desire to make lemonade with the lemons we’ve been handed in the Middle East might consider donating some selections from the Mises Institute’s catalog.
Books Over Baghdad?
