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Book donations

July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment | Joshua Gans

A reader pointed out this Slate article about a drive to send books to Iraq. There have been a number of these of the years for various countries. I always thought that it would be especially good say for textbooks rather than selling them for a few dollars on the second hand market. Oops, I am being a tad evil here because I guess I have an interest in reducing the liquidity of that market. Nonetheless, it is still potentially a socially desirable idea and worth considering as your books gather dust or prop up tables.


Comments

One Response to “Book donations”

  1. wilful on July 2nd, 2008 12:13 pm

    I can’t think of too many arab language books in my house, and sending them english language books would be arrogant/condescending/colonialist.

    And Iraq wouldn’t be top of my list anyway.

    But yeah, books to countries without decent education systems, that is a good idea.