Topic: Acolyte! Help!

Alright, I'm essentially looking for authors that say free market capitalism is awesome.  I know you can help me out on this, as you've given me links to one or two websites previously.  Can you suggest a few?

Thanks!

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Re: Acolyte! Help!

"The Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith.

Re: Acolyte! Help!

Well, duh.  tongue


But I'm looking for more recent things, possibly.  smile

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There is a recent book about the 100 most influencial business books it was "recently" published like 2 years old or so.

I think this is the book
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Business-Books-Ever-Influential/dp/0738208493

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Re: Acolyte! Help!

Adam Smith has written the worst treastises ever on free market economics. Murray Rothbard has gone as far to call him a plagiarist. I simply find him unoriginal and uninteresting; Richard Cantillon and the French classical liberals like Say, Turgot, and Bastiat, have by themselves contributed far more to economic advance than Adam Smith has with his "invisible hand". I do not like describing concrete truths in mystical terms, and it's a very poor metaphor to begin with, but I digress. That is neither here nor there.

I suppose it depends on what aspects of economics you're interested in. Be it prices and costs, business cycles, capital and interest, taxation, history, methodology, or what have you. Some /recent/ authors I can recommend looking into are Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and George Reisman. The Mises Institute regularly features articles from men like these and many others. Here is a recent article published by Reisman: http://mises.org/story/3330

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Oh yeah, LRC is another good site for pro-market articles: http://lewrockwell.com/

You may occasionally stumble upon, on one website or the other, an article or piece of literature that seems to imply in the Rothbardian tradition that anarcho-capitalism is preferable to minimal statism (minarchy). Fear not, though I do identify myself as some sort of market anarchist, there are many Austrian-minded individuals who still maintain the State is necessary for one purpose or another. Just let me know when you're ready to go all the way down the rabbit hole.

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Re: Acolyte! Help!

If you're able to go on IRC, tell me when and where, and I can explain what I'm looking for specifically.

But what you gave me so far should help.  smile

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