Classic Works Colloquium

For years, Michael Collins and then later myself organised a "classic works colloquium" in Trinity, essentially a journal club for classic books. the first one was Wealth of Nations, followed by Ricardo's Principles, then General Theory and then finally History of Economic Analysis by Schumpter. They were generally done forthnightly, firstly in a cafe and then (when i took over!) held in a bar near Trinity.

I am reviving this again but because most of the participants are too busy now to commit to once a fornight my suggestion is to do them on an ad hoc basis as follows:

(i) Someone nominates a book and arranges for physical or online copies to be distributed to the group in advance. (If payment involved then of course individuals cough up for their own – Amazon should be able to ship any classic book in days).

(ii) The nominator reads the book and provides a brief discussion over the course of one evening and then the discussion is thrown to the floor.

(iii) Two people can share the process and in fact the more the better.

If anyone has any suggestions or wants to take part let me know. We will do one in early March to get it going and then maybe every couple of months depending on interest and whether someone's willing to discuss a book.

it was also suggested that we do a "classic article" series to further lighten the load on the time poor