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Roepke's Masterpiece

November 18, 2008 3:25 PM by Jeffrey Tucker | Other posts by Jeffrey Tucker | Comments (9)

This is back in stock. I've always adored Ropke's Economics of the Free Society, not only because it is an excellent principles text (banned by the Nazis!) but also because it smashes the claim that somehow Ropke was less excited for free markets than Mises or Hayek. Nonsense, as you will see.

Comments (9)

  • Bruce Koerber

  • Whoever designed the book cover deserves to be praised.

  • Published: November 18, 2008 3:47 PM

  • ajax

  • All the covers coming out of the Mises Institute are very, very good. Who does these Jeffrey?
    This book is coming up on my queue. I have the old green generic libertarian book press copy. Dang!! I know, I know, it all about the content of the book, not the cover, but the LvMI is making the covers almost worth the price of the books.

  • Published: November 18, 2008 4:10 PM

  • Jeffrey Tucker Author Profile Page

  • These are all designed by Chad Parish, who handles our media. A man of many hats!

  • Published: November 18, 2008 4:34 PM

  • ajax

  • Beautiful work Chad!!

  • Published: November 18, 2008 4:41 PM

  • Fephisto

  • Ropke...is this the same guy that is supposedly given credit for the post-war German boom?

  • Published: November 18, 2008 9:12 PM

  • Peter

  • They are beautiful, but I wish you'd publish everything in a "standard" format - with the same form factor, colour scheme, etc., so they look nice on my shelves...
    (And BTW, every book should have one of those bookmark ribbons attached!)

  • Published: November 18, 2008 9:14 PM

  • Jeffrey Tucker Author Profile Page

  • blech on standardization. IMHO!

  • Published: November 18, 2008 9:18 PM

  • Peter

  • I heard that ?(Martha Stewart, I think) bought the complete set of Loeb Classical Library editions as interior decoration for her daughter's house. Isn't it a pity Martha can't do the same with the LvMI publications because they're all different sizes and shapes and colours? :)

  • Published: November 18, 2008 10:36 PM

  • Jeffrey Tucker Author Profile Page

  • Well, that's just the point. Uniformity suggests that the books are for decoration only. A wide variety of sizes and colors shows that they are collected and read with care to their contents. It is more real life. In fact, I find it hard to imagine that anyone would be so tacky as to use those uniform editions as decorations. What an obvious hoax!

  • Published: November 19, 2008 7:35 AM

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