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Well if I'm have one special weakness, then it's reading. And because of this weakness I stumbled upon quite few books which one just can name "eye-opener" It has happened with the following books: Human Action, the road to serfdom. Geldsozializmus, End the Fed, and stuff from Friedman...
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In the last few weeks I've read a few of the more famous "libertarian fiction" works—Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back , and Garet Garrett's The Cinder Buggy and The Driver . Hazlitt may have been a good writer, but he had no skill in fiction. The characters in Time Will...
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Just finished reading Burton Folson's The Myth of the Robber Barons . It's a quick read (the third edition comes to 134 pages outside of notes), and contains the eye-opening stories of true capitalists like Vanderbilt , Hill , and Rockefeller . As Folson explains, these are the kind of men whom...
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Today I was reminded of a great quote from Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative . Last time I discussed the book I was rather negative, but as far as 20th century politicians go, Goldwater was near the top. The following might convince you of that: I have little interest in streamlining...
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From which author do the following words come? You killed six men when you came in. Under our law you are guilty of murder, all of you. Why do you go into this nonsense of law, Colonel? There is no law between you and us. This is war. Don't you know you will have to kill all of us or we in time will...
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You know it's a popular dystopian novel, up there with 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 . You may have skimmed it in high school, but have you actually read and digested Huxley's Brave New World ? Huxley wrote it in response to H. G. Wells's absurdly utopian Men Like Gods , and shows the emptiness...
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Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative is, sadly, just another politician's manifesto, making sweeping statements in support of individual rights in one breath and in the next sacrificing them at the altar of government. He believes in individual property rights, sure: One of the...
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In recent months I have become involved in the local Tea Party group. It’s a rather odd experience - I’m approximately 30-50 years younger than everyone else in the group. I tend to lean towards anarcho-capitalism/agorism while everyone else tends to be diehard conservative (mind you, I try...
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...you dream of Jeff Tucker and have Mises Institute books in your dreams as product placement. Honest to God, I had a dream last night where I was in Wal Mart and for some reason, Jeff Tucker was there, sitting in a little Red Rider wagon in a store aisle, wearing his trademark khaki pants, shirt, blue...
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This site that lets you buy physical copy of online public domain books is a God sent. While I doubt the moderators here will not be pleased to tell you that I'm able to get "Recent Literature on Interest" by Boehm-Bawerk for half the price that the Mises Institute is charging. Of course...