On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:23 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
von Mises has been dead for a while and his publisher is probably not actively running wholesale specials.
Besides, he's like one of those Tedious Dead White Male Classics authors; nobody actually reads him, they just read commentaries or literary criticisms on him, or the Cliff Notes or comic-book "von Mises For Beginners" versions (don't know if they've done him, but the Heidegger one makes it palatable to at least approach Heidegger* :-) or more likely, economics/politics textbooks by people who have occasional references to von Mises but haven't actually read his work, just the commentaries/litcrit/cliffnotes/comics about him.
Well, "Marx for Dummies" has been the best-selling economics textbook for something like 40 years, through at least 7 or 9 editions. --Tim May "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship." --Alexander Fraser Tyler