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Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought
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Great! I’m glad to see that. It is a very difficult book to find at such a reasonable price. I now have access to a substitute (or perhaps a complement) for Blaug.
Wow! that’s a great addition to the store. I immediately ordered it to beat the crowd…
This important work is again available, and at a great price. Thanks so much.
“…we discovered the audio recordings made 20 years ago when Rothbard was researching these books. They are seven full hours of Rothbard lecturing on the history of economic thought. In these, he covers the material that was to be part of volume three.
We plan to distribute these audio files with the books, to make a complete package.”
Just wondering if it is planned to release these audio files in the future. Thank you for reprinting these incredible books.
The History of Economic Thought: From Marx to Hayek MP3 CD should be available for purchase in the Mises.org Store this Friday. It features six lectures (nearly seven hours of audio!).
Will the MP3s be posted on Mises Media as well?
Yes, on posting, yes most certainly. Those who love to click and burn can do so and those who want it already prepared with a case and art and the works can go to the store.
I do find it ironic that the new “shop mises” image is a barcode which is a regulatory requirement for all products (I remember a Mad Magazine with a giant barcode saying we hope this screws up every computer in America when it first went in, followed by AEN doing some mowing of wide and thin black grass ending just before the actual barcode).
I would also note with some irony that I think the regulation is still in place, but I don’t think Amazon or any online place actually uses it. They do speedup checkout lines in meatspace, though manage to create new opportunities for fraud with print-your-own barcode stickers.
Then there was the DRM/licensing for the cuecat (which I wrote a Palm application that would work with the happy hacking cradle attached to a cuecat).
Somehow I wouldn’t think things like barcodes, airbags, or catalytic converters, (or the dreaded “Check Engine” aka MIL light) would be libertarian symbols.
At least they can’t embed RFIDs in webpages, at least not yet. Maybe they can blink the UPC code…
Or perhaps it was intended to be ironic and I didn’t get it.
Actually Amazon requires that the books they sell carry bar codes. Chad designed this little logo and we thought it was kind of neat. As to the origin of barcodes, this history seems to suggest that it was purely a market innovation (except for the patent), unless I’m missing something. What regulation requires them?
Thanks for publishing this great book, and making it affordable for a college student. I’ve ordered it yesterday and it has already shipped today so i’m hoping it will be across the ocean by next week. This is a great way to start the new year so once again many thanks.
The second mp3 file, the Emergence of Communism, seems to end in mid thought. Is it possible the file got truncated somehow?
…and he was right in the middle of skewering John Dewey too!
My books arrived today. The look great! I’m sure I’d pay twice the price for equivalent-quality books at my local University book shop.
The only negative is the unfortunate choice of endnotes rather than footnotes!
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