Hayek is #1...

reason ^ | 06/09/2010 | Brian Doherty

[Skepolitic]

Hayek is #1...

on Amazon.com right now, with Road to Serfdom topping the Internet bookseller's charts right now, apparently because of Glenn Beck's program last night, where he called it a "Mike Tyson right hook to socialism."

[Skepolitic]

And no thread on Hayek is complete without this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

[cripplecreek]

LOL

[Frank_2001]

F.A. may be #1, but Salma ain’t bad either;)

[wvguy]

Waiting for the Salma Hayek pics! ;-)

[gthog61]

I was just about to say Selma has to be #1 in over 40 boobage.

[Loud Mime]

Hayek’s writings are very educational, and depressing when you realize he is warning us of present day politics.

[Andonius_99]

ask and ye shall receive...

[Mr. K]

I agree!!!!

[cripplecreek]

Our generation has forgotten that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. When all the means of production are vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of ‘society’ as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us. In the hands of private individuals, what is called economic power can be an instrument of coercion, but it is never control over the whole life of a person. But when economic power is centralized as an instrument of political power it creates a degree of dependence scarcely distinguishable from slavery …

[Tarpon]

Or this, the cartoon version of road to serfdom.

The abridged Readers Digest version here.

[rbosque]

I did a paper on Hayek in one of my Econ classes in college! Great thinker- when everyone else was praising Mussolini and other fascists, he was preaching about the virtues of a free markets and a robust Capitalist system. The Austrian perspective! Glad to see a Hayek revival during these dark times of a Keynesian hangover!

[Mamzelle]

Watched Beck yesterday, and checked Amazon's ratings for the book---#1, lol!

The executives at Amazon are Marxists a$$holes...it must gall them to see the power Beck has.

But I dislike how that gives Amazons' jerks business.

[rbosque]

What a beautiful woman!

[dajeeps]

I thought Milton Friedman’s “History of Money” and “Free to Choose” a lot easier to read.

[chickenlips]

Beck needs to promote Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson” next.

It should be mandatory reading before you can vote. Actually before you can drive, that would assure more readers!

[Yardstick]

Don't forget Ludwig von Mises, another great Austrian! He predicted in his book Socialism, which he wrote in the 1930s I think, that the Soviet Union would fail and gave the technical economic reasons why. He totally nailed it, called it ball and pocket.

[Bratch]

[andy58-in-nh]

Hmmm. It looks as thought there might be a couple of bumps in the "Road to Serfdom".

[Randy Larsen]

Dude!

What the heck is wrong with you!

[EGPWS]

Ohhh, nothing I like better than looking at a nice set of teeth. : D