Tom Woods’ book Meltdown debuts on the New York Times bestseller list, at #15 (appears in print in two weeks). This is, as Lew Rockwell points out, the first time that a book on Austrian business cycle theory has gone this far. Fantastic.
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Congratulations Tom!
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This makes me incredibly happy. Perhaps this cloud does have a silver lining.
I feel bad having bought my copy from Borders, rather than from the Institute, but I caved to my impulses for instant gratification.
Great job, Mr. Woods.
I spent my Valentine’s day reading this book. I plan on distributing it to all my friends and co-workers.
This wonderful success for Tom is just one of many examples I’m seeing everywhere that something big is afoot. If you choose to buy this book on Amazon, buy it together with Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (and get the free shipping) and become convinced that the long years of work by LVM Institute and others seems to be entering the elbow of the curve.
I’m hoping my copy comes in the mail tomorrow. I know so many people who need to read this book.
It got up to #13 on Amazon’s best sellers on the day it came out.
Facebook users, don’t forget to search for Tom Woods pages on Facebook so you can promote them to your friends.
Also, Minneapolis-area people … Tom Woods will be speaking at the Economics of Freedom conference on February 28. See http://www.mnc4l.org/ for details.
Jonathan,
Thanks for the heads up! My family is still in the west metro area so they could catch him there. I myself will have to wait until colorado springs.
Is there an electronic version available? PDF or mobi. I prefer to read books on my cell phone.
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Could someone please add this as a link in the Wikipedia article on “Austrian Business Cycle Theory”. It’s very easy to do. Just click “edit” and type in “[[Meltdown]] by [[Thomas Woods]]” in the “See Also” links.
I tried to, but was blocked. Long story…..
Thanks for that. Please remove my (repetitive) contribution.
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but it seems to me there is a slight breeze of change blowing. I had never heard of Austrian economics until I began to follow the Ron Paul campaign. Now I find myself studying it quite intently. The idea of an Austrian being a best seller seemed unlikely at best a year ago. Now we have one. Yesterday afternoon I watched Judge Andrew Napolitano, Ron Paul, and Peter Schiff discussing free market economics on a major media website. Would anyone have thought this possible a year ago? I see Ron Paul interviewed by major media outlets more often now than during the primary campaign. These same media outlets didn’t take him seriously a year ago. I see Peter Schiff interviewed and taken seriously several times a week. A year or two ago he was only invited on media interview shows to give the pundits someone to laugh at.
Is it just me, or does anyone else see at least some momentum starting to build in our direction?
My mainstream economics 101 professor at Columbia brought up Mises and Hayek yesterday.
Im ordering three copies tonight
My mainstream economics 101 professor at Columbia brought up Mises and Hayek yesterday.
Im ordering three copies tonight
@ Nexus: If there is any country that has a political philosophical background that is susceptible to Ron Paul et al. on the libertarian side and Mises et al. on the Austrian free market economics side, it’s (still) the USA. If you guys can pull it off, anything is possible for the rest of the world (meant in a non-(new)-Wilsonian/neo-Conservative way). It’s ideas that matter, and if good ideas begin to finally matter in a wider sphere, I’m very positive we could see a rigorous reconstuction of politics and the economy in our lifetimes. (Hooray for the internets, thank you Al Gore!
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Not even having read the book, I made an offer to my extended family to buy a copy for the first 10 people who wanted one, on the condition that they forward it on to someone else when done. I’ve bought all 10 copies from the LVMI and sent them out.
We’ll see how my family members react to reading it…
We are certainly in the ascendancy. Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ sold 600,000 copies in the colonies when the population was only a few million. Every man, woman and child must have read that pamphlet.
We must do the same with the Austrian School. The most amazing thing is that any libertarian I know can’t shut up talking about libertarianism and is extremely excited about reading and learning more.
That, my friends, is why i do not despair, for we who have seen through the lies are now enemies of the State and shall never be conquered again. As our numbers continue to swell, we undermine the authority of the State at the margin until it collapses through hopefully peaceful disobedience.
That I believe is called ‘the tipping point’ and every day we grow and get closer.
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