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Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

BlackNumero — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:07:21 GMT

At my local Borders store I see The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve.

Granted its more conspiratorial than Austrian/Libertarian, but it does slam the Fed.

(Alright book though :/)

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Nitroadict — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:55:47 GMT

Le Master:

Nitroadict:

Dondoolee:

Nitroadict:

BobT:

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

I think if libertarian flash mobs emerged to do this simple thing across various barnes & nobles stores, it would be a pretty subtle & effective marketing tactic, actually. The RP'ers would nuts over something like that (if they didn't already think about it).

not a bad idea, I pass a lot of Barnes and Nobles and shop at verious ones semi frequently across NYC.

What other books should be considered?

Meltdown is a good candidate, as it's relevant to present going-ons; if you can think of any other libertarian like books you've seen there, list em here. I'm gonna check their website to see if I can find anything else...

The Revolution

yeah that just popped into my head as well.

Here's a short list I've compiled after browsing Barnes & Nobles site for a few minutes. I didn't check for in-store availability, but I figure a big enough list will yield enough results to pick & choose from, if by any chance, the more popular choices are somehow not in stock:

New Libertarian Manifesto
by Samuel Edward Konkin

Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression
by Mary J. Ruwart

Road To Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek

Meltdown :
A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse
by Thomas E. Woods, Ron Paul

America's Great Depression
by Murray N. Rothbard
(would be also be extremley relevant, & to the uinformed, would be an excellent first serious read)

Neurophilosophy of Free Will: From Libertarian Illusions to a Concept of Natural Autonomy
by Henrik Walter, Cynthia Klohr
(despite the title, i think it provides a good look into neurophilosphy, & this might help people who are against libertarianism question their own beliefs, without the obvious flavor of libertarianism, or the "rude" rejection of the potentional reader's ideaology)

Capitalism : The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand

&

Atlas Shrugged
(it wouldn't hurt to get more people interested & help the recent renewel in the atlas shrugged meme).

The Revolution : A Manifesto
by Ron Paul

Also worth considering is, if enough people were to found out about this, the idea of at least 5 people forming "flash lines" pretending to be confused & asking people around them help in finding "x" libertarian title, or asking the staff if they can direct them to where "x" libertarian title is located.

Again, it's very micro, but I think the injection of word of mouth would obviously help pass interest around.

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Le Master — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:46:12 GMT

Nitroadict:

Dondoolee:

Nitroadict:

BobT:

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

I think if libertarian flash mobs emerged to do this simple thing across various barnes & nobles stores, it would be a pretty subtle & effective marketing tactic, actually. The RP'ers would nuts over something like that (if they didn't already think about it).

not a bad idea, I pass a lot of Barnes and Nobles and shop at verious ones semi frequently across NYC.

What other books should be considered?

Meltdown is a good candidate, as it's relevant to present going-ons; if you can think of any other libertarian like books you've seen there, list em here. I'm gonna check their website to see if I can find anything else...

The Revolution

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Nitroadict — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:31:30 GMT

Dondoolee:

Nitroadict:

BobT:

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

I think if libertarian flash mobs emerged to do this simple thing across various barnes & nobles stores, it would be a pretty subtle & effective marketing tactic, actually. The RP'ers would nuts over something like that (if they didn't already think about it).

not a bad idea, I pass a lot of Barnes and Nobles and shop at verious ones semi frequently across NYC.

What other books should be considered?

Meltdown is a good candidate, as it's relevant to present going-ons; if you can think of any other libertarian like books you've seen there, list em here. I'm gonna check their website to see if I can find anything else...

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

William — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:32:04 GMT

Nitroadict:

BobT:

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

I think if libertarian flash mobs emerged to do this simple thing across various barnes & nobles stores, it would be a pretty subtle & effective marketing tactic, actually. The RP'ers would nuts over something like that (if they didn't already think about it).

not a bad idea, I pass a lot of Barnes and Nobles and shop at verious ones semi frequently across NYC.

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Nitroadict — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:51:11 GMT

BobT:

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

I think if libertarian flash mobs emerged to do this simple thing across various barnes & nobles stores, it would be a pretty subtle & effective marketing tactic, actually. The RP'ers would nuts over something like that (if they didn't already think about it).

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

BobT — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:45:40 GMT

I always see Meltdown, Road to Serfdom, and Economics in One Lesson at the two Barnes and Nobles I go to. I always pull them out and put them in front of the other books with the cover facing out. Hopefully someone picks them up. I also always turn Krugman's books around so no one has to look at them.

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Nitroadict — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:35:24 GMT

The local used book store I frequent has had a consistently semi-decent selection of libertarian & anarchistic literature (sadly, anarchist books are fewer & rarer & bunched together with the socialist books, which never seem to be touched, thankfully).

I will probably have to go more frequently on the days they ship books in to get the real good stuff, methinks, as it seems they are in higher demand (the cashier commented so based on my purchases).

I also saw Mises' Buearcracy, but decided against buying it since I felt it was over-priced for a used copy (7 dollars, which wouldnt be too much if i didn't have the PDF on my comp already).

I could probably find more if I literally spent a day there looking (at most I average 2 and 1/2 hours, but recently they made a map of the aisles so it's not as disorganized as before...)

They have a ton of philosophy &history books, however; a good deal of them are vintage as well. I recently got a pristine copy of H.L. Menken's "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche" for 4 bucks (9 dollars originally) :D

Re: Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

bearing01 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:22:03 GMT

I'm reading that one right now.

Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:07:34 GMT

I saw Road to Serfdom at Barnes & Nobles today, and bought it. This is good news; first time I've seen an Austrian book, other than Meltdown, at a bookstore.