Bookstores and von Mises - was: fuel injected firearm

[Tim May]

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