Once upon a time, Apple used to have a site where they published photos of iPods in the oddest, coolest, prettiest, or most impossible (etc., etc.) places. I don’t remember if this was published on the Apple website or in one of the Mac magazines. Pictures came in from all over the world, showing iPods in every place and predicament imaginable. I propose we do the same with austro-libertarian books. Here’s my contribution (Tobermory, Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada).
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Given the state of state education today, a university library would be an odd place to find Austrian works.
I went to university in Canada, and our library actually had Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. Also, Tobermory is a nice place!
The library at Towson University has 15 items by Murray Rothbard:
America’s Great Depression (4th ed.)
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Conceived in Liberty (all 4 volumes)
Economic Lectures [sound recording]
The Ethics of Liberty
For a New Liberty (1st ed.)
The Great Depression and New Deal Monetary Policy (Garet Garrett and Murray N. Rothbard)
A History of Money and Banking in the United The Logic of Action
Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero
Making Economic Sense
Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles
The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies
Power & Market: Government and The Economy (1st ed.)
Power and Market: Government and The Economy (2nd ed.)
It has zero books by Ludwig von Mises.
It has The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and The Review of Austrian Economics.
It has nine books by Henry Hazlitt:
The Conquest of Poverty
The Critics of Keynesian Economics
Economics in One Lesson
The Failure of the “New Economics”: An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies
The Foundations of Morality
The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It
Man vs. the Welfare State
A Practical Program for America
The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt
It has 38 items from F.A. Hayek.
I will not list them all. Suffice to say that The Pure Theory of Capital and The Road to Serfdom are among them.
Also, The Last Night of Liberalism by Jörg Guido Hülsmann is also here.
Sincerely yours,
Alex Peak
P.S. We also have the wonderful The Market for Liberty by Linda & Morris Tannehill here.
There are 65 books by Ludwig von Mises in your library. Do a search for von Mises. This is all probably due to John Egger that Towsen has such a great collection of Austrian works. Thanks John!
Reading in an idyllic place is a big plus but fighting in the trenches of socialism and fascism is just as idyllic!
Hopefully all of us can enjoy both!
Mr. Thornton,
(A) It’s spelled Towson. Don’t worry, everyone finds some way to mess up the title. “Townson” is also a common misspelling.
(B) We’ve got some great libertarian professors here. You mention Egger; there’s also Howard Baetjer (an Austrian), James Pomykala (probably not an Austrian), and Jim Dorn (who has some connection to Cato). And that’s just the economics department. The political science department has a professor who has described herself as fiscally conservative and socially liberal, and the electronic media and film department also has a libertarian.
I could do some brief investigating to see if any of them had a hand in this…
(C) Ah. I was typing in “Mises, Ludwig.” “Von Mises” works. Although I don’t know where you got the number 65. The database is telling me it’s 22. And at least five of them are different editions of Human Action.
Cheers,
Alex Peak
I’m taking Hayek with me to Florence next week. I’ll see what I can do…
Nice picture, great book. I finished it at my in-laws’ house near Birmingham a few weeks ago. If I can find a picture, I’ll post it.
Actually, Mark’s point raises an interesting question about how to most effectively disseminate good economic ideas. In cleaning out my bookshelves in the office and at home, I’ve given a lot of books to the libraries at Rhodes, to our church, and to Goodwill. Will they do more good somewhere else? Can anyone suggest better ways to get these books into broader circulation?
I don’t know if a front porch in Seattle counts as odd, cool, pretty, or impossible, but I’ve had this photo on my Flickr page for a while:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asr-cascadian/1315223163/
I’ve also found no particular shortage of Austrian books in the Ohio State University library. At least they have a few good books by Kirzner (which is who I was looking up when I checked). I don’t think they have a print subscription to QJAE, but they do have an electronic one through one of the databases they subscribe to. I haven’t checked for RAE yet.
That aside…
That looks like a beautiful (if somewhat uncomfortable) place to read Hulsmann’s book.
Cool, when I was a kid I visited Tobermory every summer.