GOOD READING

'Different Drummer" booklet no.6, Why "Soft" Techniclogies Will Not Be America's Energy Salvation has just been published. Why solar can supplement, but not substitute-both the technical reasons and why the whole campaign is not a technical, but an ideological issue forced on America by a narrow stratum of intellectualoids. $2 ($1.50 for current AtE subscribers) from Golem Press, Box 1342, Boulder, CO 80306.

In Defense of the Corporation by Robert Hessen of Stanford University's Hoover Institution is a scholarly yet very readable refutation of those who would deny the corporation's rights as an association of free men. Ralph Nader emerges from this discussion not merely as one who has a different philosophy, but who uses dishonest methods, bogus documentation and accounts "shot through with phantom footnotes citations which prove to be unverifiable, bogus or deceptive. The errors are essential: Without them, Nader has no basis for . . . attacking the state incorporation system." Out in late January, regularly $7.95, available to current AtE subscribers (state when ordering) for $6.75 postpaid from Palo Alto Book Service, 200 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306.

• The other great Fakir of the Phantom Footnote is Amory Lovins, as will be apparent to all who have read Danish physicists P. Olgard's report on his deceptive manipulations (AtE Sept. 78). Further evidence of Lovins' abuse of data, inconsistency, unjustified extrapolation, omission of updates in obsolete data, and other shady manipulations when he refers to "documentation" is given by J.M. Gallagher in "Lovins' Data Source, " Science, 22 Oec. 1978, p p. l 242-1243 .

America's Railroads: Ruin and Reform by J.G. Kneiling is a small and highly readable booklet, free (in single copies) from U.S.IeC., Box 2686, Nashville, TN 37219.

• " Has Capitalism a Future? " by the ever-readable British exsocialist Paul Johnson in the Jan. 1979 Freeman exhorts supporters of capitalism to 'stop apologizing and go on the ideological offensive. They must show to ordinary people that both the Communist and the Third Worlds are parasitical upon the industrial capitalism for their growth technology." Free (but contributions appreciated) from Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533.

• Two Essays on Corporate Philantropy and Economic Education by C.L. Harriss and W.A. Allen keeps up the high standard of the IIER series (95¢); one we did not have occasion to mention earlier was Does Resource Conservation Pay? by G.Anders, W.P.Gramm and S.C.Maurice ($1.25). Both from Green Hill Publishers, Box 738, Ottawa, IL 61350.