Here is Garet Garrett’s amazing 1923 novel Satan’s Bushel. The title refers to the bushel of wheat that breaks the price. The farmers would sell low during harvest but have nothing to sell when the price rose, and hence the need for futures traders, which this book celebrates with a wonderful story that involves incredible character and plot development. The strangest character is the gambling water witch named Absalom Weaver, who decides that the best way to raise the price of wheat is to kill half the crops in the night by spreading a fungus all over Kansas. Foreshadowing the New Deal!!
In print soon.
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You are a wonderful human being!
Congratulations and Thank You for putting Garrett back in print. I started with The Bubble and have managed to find bits and pieces of others here and there. He is a great writer that everyone should read. The Institute is once again showing its value to the world by keeping in print essential texts that will some day guide us out of our present morass.
Any plans to do a collection like you did for Bastiat?
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