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Re: Buying some books?

Dean14 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:41:33 GMT

Wow that's lucky!

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:23:12 GMT

Redistrubute to me to increase overall utility on the mises forums.

Hm...Or we could all live in a mises forums commune and "share"? Sounds more reasonable xD

Re: Buying some books?

John James — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:42:51 GMT

That is fricken crazy.

Re: Buying some books?

NonAntiAnarchist — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:43:24 GMT

Redistrubute to me to increase overall utility on the mises forums.

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:28:59 GMT

Hello everyone, I contacted Steven Horwitz about this, and he writes:

Hi folks.

Although he did not include his middle initial, I can absolutely verify that the signature you attached matches those in my signed copies of two of his books. You have the real deal there.

SH

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:11:48 GMT

The seller says:

We can't be sure, since this book was acquired by us used; but usually names in cursive on the title page are autographs.
Thanks again for your order.

Sounds hopeful!

Re: Buying some books?

John James — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:59:29 GMT

That would be hilarious

Re: Buying some books?

Chyd3nius — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:58:17 GMT

Well what would you think? We're jealous.

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:22:39 GMT

By God, does my used copy of Ethics of Liberty have Rothbard's signature in it!? The seller only said "name written in pen on inside cover," not that the book contained the signature of the author himself. Of course, I could always be wrong about this. Here is the picture of my (alleged) signature:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/rothbardsignature.jpg/

^Sorry if the above is blurred, for I took it on my phone. Here is a picture on the web of Rothbard's confirmed signature:

http://mises.org/Community/media/p/230544.aspx

The chief differences appear to be with the "M" (it's not connected to the "u" in my picture). But no one writes their signature the exact same way twice, so there is hope that mine is legitimate, particularly seeing that the mises signature appears to be a facsimile. Then again, someone could have just scrawled Rothbard's name in cursive inside my book, so...

What do you all think? I contacted my seller about all this, and I will post if he replies.

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:21:51 GMT

Re: Buying some books?

LogisticEarth — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:30:41 GMT

Oh, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a book of Libertarian revolution. One of the characters is a philosophical anarchist. Should be fun! And thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah, that one is particularly libertarian. But Heinlien wasn't consistantly libertarian. I think Jeff Riggenbaugh wrote some good breakdown about the author and his odd inconsitency. I think he (or someone else) made the funny suggestion that Heinlien adopted the ideology and ideas of whoever he was married to/sleeping with at the time. :-P

Re: Buying some books?

Vladimir Ulyanov — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:53:10 GMT

Seriously.

Re: Buying some books?

RothbardsDisciple — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:58:05 GMT

LogisticEarth:
Regarding the Heinlien on your list...

Oh, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a book of Libertarian revolution. One of the characters is a philosophical anarchist. Should be fun!

And thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Buying some books?

Jetrpg — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:07:00 GMT

I have to recommend: An unincorporated man

http://www.amazon.com/Unincorporated-Man-Sci-Essential-Books/dp/B0030EG1BA/

Its not like perfect in its ideology, this is its appeal. I refuse to read the follow-up book, because this book leave off with reader thinking about the nature of government, individual freedom, and corporations.

You can see many ideas from a cyberpunk, biological modification of humans, economical premise of Hayek, to a utopian dystopian or dystopian utopia (and i don't think think readers can make the judgment of which of these two it is).

Its overfilled with ideas, too much maybe. The writers could sit down and write entire books about segments of history revealed in this books setting.

Re: Buying some books?

Marko — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:57:13 GMT

Hmmh, was it maybe BetterWorldBooks you ordered it from?