The Modest Proposal can now be read in French (click Une modeste proposition pour surmonter la crise de l’euro), courtesy of Aurore Lalucq of the Veblen Institute (www.veblen-institute.org ). [Here is a recent mention in Le Monde.] And while we are at it, Fintan O’Toole has recently canvassed for the Modest Proposal in an article in the Irish Times.