Help from Jeffrey Tucker

User-managed groups educational pamphlets
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I contacted Jeffrey Tucker and asked if we could use some of the articles on the Mises site. He sugested I look at the Bailout Reader. He seemed very happy to cooperate. He has already given us permission to use these two.

How To Avoid Another Depression:

The Glories of Change

In fact if I understood him right, he basicly said we could use anything we like. Though he may have only meant of his own works. I know copyrights can be a jumble at times. But as I understood he was at least giving us permission to use his works.

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This is the email conversation I had with Jeffrey Tucker:

Ryan patgray to permissions

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To whom it may concern,

Some of the regular members of the Mises.org Forums (myself included) would like to produce or encourage the production of a series of educational pamphlets about Austrian economics. To that end, I have created a web-group on the Community side of this site. It can be found here:

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/groups/educational_pamphlets/default.aspx

In particular, we are interested in educational pamphlets that would teach about the true root causes on the current financial crises. It is our intention to distribute these pamphlets gratis. We intend to include contact information for the Ludwig von Mises Institute on the reverse so that people who read them will learn about the institute. They may serve as a form of advertisement for the institute. Are there articles that we may use for this purpose? If so, what articles do you believe would be the most beneficial for this cause? I would appreciate any information on this topic that you could provide.

Thank you,

Ryan Gray

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really happy for you to do this, yes.

I think you might be a better judge of this than I am. Look through the Bailout Reader and see what you think

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Dear Mr. Tucker,

Thank you very much for your quick response.

Events are moving so fast in that I think the more timeless an article the better. I think Mark Thornton’s How To Avoid Another Depression would be a good choice:

Or your own article The Glories of Change, which would show people an interesting, novel way of looking at the fall of giant corporations.

Could we have permission to use those?

Thank you,

Ryan Gray

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Jeffrey Tucker to me

show details 2:11 PM (1 hour ago) Reply

of course. you can have anything you want. I really appreciate it

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A major issue I have with using Mises articles as pamphlets is the fact that they often assume at least some background knowledge of Austrian economics in the first place. You have to remember that the target population of these pamphlets will be people who may never have had any economics class at all. Most people don’t understand that higher taxes hurt everyone, not just the wealthy, or that capital goods help expand the economy, hell, these people don’t even know what capital goods are!

So our first pamphlet should focus just on the very basics: how HUD created the housing mess by ordering Fannie & Freddie to buy more and more subprime loans and how the Fed created additional incentives for bad loans by lowering rates so low that it created a huge new demand for houses.

If we really want to, we could “saturate” certain neighborhoods with a number of pamphlets about the financial mess, the first being the most basic and subsequent ones being more advanced. I’m worried, however, about people “not caring.” Maybe a better strategy could involve just passing out some “basic” pamphlets in mass numbers.

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Agreed that Mises articles are usually intermediate.

However Jeffrey Tucker and Mark Thornton as well as Lew Rockwell all write in a very easy to understand style. If we can’t use articles whole, we could cite portions of them, and then list the source author as an authority. Like

blabity Bla Bla Bla. Market Blabla, to heck with socialism blabla. - Lew Rockwell, President of LvMI.

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Mises.org is now licensed under the Creative Commons license - so you can use any of the content.

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Thanks! That is great to know!