Economics Questions

Re: The Theory of Money and Credit, strange edition?

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:55:43 GMT

Anybody recognize the publisher? It could be one of those publishers which take files from the internet and publish them as books.

Re: The Theory of Money and Credit, strange edition?

filc — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:59:00 GMT

Please write a review explaining what you point out above and instead offer a link to the LvMI published version.

Re: The Theory of Money and Credit, strange edition?

Tex2002ans — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:20:03 GMT

im_retarded:
1) There's a missing period to a sentence on at least every other page (except part 4). The sad thing is, I'm not exaggerating. Is the Mises Inst. edition like this?

No, the Mises Institute would never release such a low quality book (especially a book by Mises). The only thing I could think of with missing periods is a very quick run through a (garbage) OCR program. Are there lots of spelling errors in your edition on the book as well?

im_retarded:
2) There are *no* footnotes whatsoever. Does the Mises version have footnotes?

I do not have a hard copy of the book, but I assume it is just like the PDF version here, which does have footnotes:

http://mises.org/resources/194/The-Theory-of-Money-and-Credit

im_retarded:
3) My edition has *no* introduction by Rothbard, but mentions it in the back in the "about the authors". My edition also has no foreward by Mises or anything, it just jumps right in.

Just a horrible print by that publisher.

im_retarded:
4) Mine is about 263 pages, whereas the Mises Inst. is 498(!). As far as I know, mine has everything except the foreward by Rothbard.

Could be a much smaller font.

im_retarded:
My edition is pretty much bugging me out. Should I get the Mises Institute version or let it be? Does anyone have my version and thus any recommendations?

That is up to you, but it seems like the version you have is just garbage.

The Theory of Money and Credit, strange edition?

im_retarded — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:04:49 GMT

My version, which was done by this publisher and looks exactly like this: http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Money-Credit-Ludwig-Mises/dp/1453697454/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1301611927&sr=8-3

Basically, this edition is (as far as I can tell) way different from the Mises Institute one.

So I've got a couple concerns and questions.

1) There's a missing period to a sentence on at least every other page (except part 4). The sad thing is, I'm not exaggerating. Is the Mises Inst. edition like this?
2) There are *no* footnotes whatsoever. Does the Mises version have footnotes?

3) My edition has *no* introduction by Rothbard, but mentions it in the back in the "about the authors". My edition also has no foreward by Mises or anything, it just jumps right in.

4) Mine is about 263 pages, whereas the Mises Inst. is 498(!). As far as I know, mine has everything except the foreward by Rothbard.

5) When was part 4 of the Theory of Money and Credit added? because, a) it was written in a manner far different from the rest (part 4 is just like Human Action, which from what I understand, Mises wrote in English whereas Money&Credit was translated from German, so was part 4 an addition in English by Mises?) because part 4 alludes to Keynesianism and even Human Action if I remember right so it was clearly added later.

My edition is pretty much bugging me out. Should I get the Mises Institute version or let it be? Does anyone have my version and thus any recommendations?