Economy of Words is such a book. The weight of the evidence is truly overwhelming, and the breadth of the ethnography, both in the range of central banks the author has accessed and the range of materials and informantsâfrom academic theories to policy makers to lower level data collectors to economists to the history of economic thoughtâis breathtaking.
On February 16th 1969, Build Me Up Buttercup by the Foundations peaked at #3 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on December 29th, 1968 at position #84 and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 8 of those 15 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
A live album, 2008's Last Night I Saved Her from Vampires, became the band's 4AD debut; early the following year, the single The Hope That House Built signaled Future of the Left's heavier attack on their second album, Travels with Myself and Another, which arrived in summer 2009.