Saturday, January 21, 2012

Money for nothin'

For five years, I've been putting out some decent stuff — or so I think — here at The Barefoot Bum. I've never asked for anything before, but I have become an impoverished college student. So, if you like the content, feel free to buy me a book. Thanks!

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  1. Larry, resorting to capitalism? Shame.

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  2. Pshaw. :-) Trade is not capitalism. Capitalism is private, absentee ownership of industrial means of production. I'm much closer to anarchism here.

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  3. Are these for class or just for pleasure or both?

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  4. They're for pleasure. I get financial aid for my textbooks.

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  5. Some of the books you have listed are the kindle edition. Just mentioning it because you have a kindle listed at the bottom of your wish list, just underneath the super hero buttons & pins(!!).

    When I bought my kindle, I stole about 4000 ebooks in a single torrent download. If I liked the book, then I bought it locally in paperback because I would rather support my local book store than amazon.com who sometimes charge more for the kindle version than for the paperback version.

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  6. Yes, I already have a Kindle. However, my girlfriend (who also put the superhero buttons on the list) tends to... borrow... it.

    I put the Kindle version of a book on my wishlist only if it's substantially cheaper than other versions.

    I don't think Amazon is a terrific company. Oh well; I still have to live in the world. If you're uncomfortable working with Amazon, I understand completely.

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  7. Here's the "Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit [1912]" as a free library downloadable ebook :-

    http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1061&Itemid=27

    It seems legal and legit.

    It's also available for free from the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I don't know how Amazon is getting away with selling it.
    http://mises.org/Literature

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  8. The "Reflections on violence (1915)" by Georges Sorel
    http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsonvio00soreuoft

    Also looks legit and legal.Downloadable in various formats.

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  9. "The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won't Tell You, Selected Works of Frederic Bastiat" and
    "The Law" are also freely downloadable from google books and the Mises Institute.

    http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf

    A free condensed version of "The Road to Serfdom" is downloadable from a few places. I don't know how condensed the book is but it's better than nothing.

    The remainding authors expect us to actually hand over money for their work. Outrageous!

    ( Books really are post-scarcity. It's a pity a lot of people are not bothering to read anymore. )

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