The American Spectator’s story on Joe the Plumber and his recommendation of a monetary treatise by Mises makes the NYT blogs with an item that links The Economist. The AmSpec, meanwhile, is left out of the hit parade because it doesn’t have the story on its website, which seems not smart.
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/9060/plumbing-and-mises/
Plumbing and Mises
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You cannot get any more precise in classifying “Theory of Money and Credit” than to describe this masterpiece of Ludwig von Mises as ‘but some things are forever.’
This is an important statement to be deposited for many to contemplate. Interestingly, those who tap into the NYT blogs are relatively internet savvy which means that they are likely to notice the difference between the propaganda spewed by main stream media and the alternative viewpoints accessible online.
‘But some things are forever.’ What does it mean to those who contemplate? Very intriguing! Very attracting! Humans who are not latent but rather who have a relatively alert entrepreneurial spirit will recognize that this resonates with the same qualities as truth and will seek it out!
What may seem small is monumental. Truth will ultimately rip through all the layers and layers of lies. Soon these individuals and others will be turning to the Mises Institute for more information.
I guess this will put the nail once and for all in the coffin of the lie that libertarians are only rich white college kids.
So the NY Times links to the Keynesian Economist? The Mises blog had the story more than two weeks ago.
Well, it doesn’t quite sound plausible. All other books are about plumbing, and this is the only one about economics? Sounds unlikely, given that it is kind of an advanced level text, for those who already learned the basics. Clearly would not be text one normally starts to learn economics with, that rather would Hazlitt’s One Lesson, or Gene’s Econ for Real People, or, for a brave person, Human Action or Man, Economy, and State, but clearly not the Theory of Money and Credit. I think someome must just have convinced Joe to put it there.
I have to agree with Miklos, the original source of all this seems like a joke. After all, if someone compiled a list of Mises’ favorite books and all but one of them were about wiener schnitzel, we probably wouldn’t take it too seriously.
LOL, yes one of those Mises Institute jackboots must have “gotten to him.”
“Listen Joe, Theory of Money and Credit goes on your list or you swim with the fishes.”
nice post
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