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1167 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 21 Jan freebie \ on: Updates to _Human Action_ for the twenty-first century? econ

When I first got into libertarianism I fell in with a group of local hard core anarcho capitalists for whom Human Action was the bible. These guys literally would use reading the entire text as a litmus test for your commitment to the cause. You couldn't fake it because they would quiz you. I remember sitting at my desk at night after working all day, staring at the gigantic book. I read it, and I enjoyed it, but it took me a very long time to get through it. You're right. It was worth it.

I don't know if what you're looking for us out there.

796 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 21 Jan

I didn't mention that my less-admirable motivation for picking up HA in the first place was that I wanted to be sufficient to an examination like the one you described.

My sense was (and is) that most economic blatherers on crypto-twitter and elsewhere have no fucking clue and have never read HA, nor much of anything else, probably, except the warmed over bullshit that passes as doctrine in this space. So the plan was to read HA with great attention and flex on them, quoting verse, about how dumb it was, and then what could they say?

Except I accidentally wound up loving the book and thinking it was brilliant. Oops.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 21 Jan

This was the late 1980s and it was an all male crowd. It was almost like the peer pressure I felt to smoke a joint in middle school.