Thought this would be a good idea for a thread: post what you are reading.
“Anarchy, State, and Utopia” by Nozick
“Pain Free” by Pete Egoscue
The Rediscovery of the Mind by Searle
-Jon
Just finished MES and I’m starting P&M.
Nozick also.
Present dead-tree volume in hand, Hamilton’s Curse, by Tom DiLorenzo, came in the mail on Tuesday.
On the Zaurus for nighttime reading, Kildar by John Ringo. http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
Halfway through Ayn Rand’s “The Virtue of Selfisness” (reading it in inconsistent sessions, so I’ve frequently backtracked 5 to 10 pages to help keep the book fresh in memory…). I might go back & read the few Peikoff chapters if I read it a 2nd time.
I’m going to restart reading Rand’s “The Art of Non-Fiction” when I finish TVOS.
Just getting into Paul Avrich’s “The Modern School Movement”…
Recently stalled on the 3rd chapter of “Todd May’s: Political Philosophy of Post-Structuralist Anarchism”; will probably need to restart.
I have browsed Nozick’s “anarchy state & utpoia”, but have not begun reading it yet.
Started Max Stirner’s “The Ego & It’s Own” after re-discovering the PDF on my comp & printing it out.
I’m also about a 3rd into Lawrence Lessig’s “Code & Other Laws of Cyberspace”.
I’m also about to start Douglas Rushkoff’s “Get Back In The Box: Innovation From The Inside Out.” as a loose preparation for taking his online class: “Corporatized: An Alternative To Corporatism & Beyond (scroll down)” in Jan over at MaybeLogic.org.
I should probably focus on less books at a time, honestly… :\
I was half way through Leviathan when I started reading MES, but I got way too into MES and basically stop reading it, I’ll come back to it sometime though.
MES, baby!
I’ve met a couple of other Austro libertarians here in Dublin and we have regular sessions where we discuss a couple of chapters per week.
I’m also reading TEOL and the essay Case for A 100 Percent Gold Dollar.
It’s a Rothbard-fest at my apartment!
I’ve a freind from Dublin who is everything but an Austro Libertarian.
MES as well as 'Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of General Semantics" by Bruce Kodish
I am reading every single Mises blog article published and commenting in every single one of them since I joined this forum.
LibraryThing seems to think I’m reading Sail (see below); in fact I’m re-reading Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles, but I read Sail in the middle of it, and LT isn’t smart enough to realize I’ve finished that and show the next unfinished book in the stack [:(]
PS: The Mises Circle group on LT is very quiet…
Reading MES for the second time.
In my sparse free time, I am cutting swaths of readitude through Man, Economy, and State.
I haven’t had much time to read recently, but I’ve been trying to work my way through a collection of essays put together by Larry May and Stacey Hoffman called Collective Responsibility: Five Decades of Debate in Theoretical and Applied Ethics. I’m using it as part of a project to address the idea that climate change, if it were occuring, would be the unintended result of many separate actions taken by a large number of often completely unconnected individuals over a long period of time. I figure that discussions of collective responsibility will prove useful here, and this book seems to contain most of the classic accounts.
(To preempt any “[So and so] already addressed that lol!!1one” comments: I’ve already read Jan Narveson’s excellent essay on “Collective Responsibility,” Roderick Long’s similarly excellent essay “On Making Small Contributions to Evil,” and George Reisman’s slightly-less-excellent essay “Environmentalism in the Light of Menger and Mises,” as well as parts of the chapter of his book Capitalism entitled, “Natural Resources and the Environment” – the same book where he disproves the ridiculous and intellectually dishonest concept of opportunity cost.)
I’m currently reading “Classical Economics - An austrian perspective on the history of economic thought Vol. 2”, by Rothbard, I’m just about to finish reading the last chapter on Marx.
I would love to hear more about his arguments against opportunity cost, if you don’t feel like writing it all down maybe you could send me a link to his works, if it can be found on the internet that is.
“The case against the Fed” by Rothbard
Life of Cola di Rienzo
Basically an Italian guy who becomes Tribune of Rome in the 14th century and cuts people’s heads off. In the name of the greater good, of course.
Let’s try keep it in perspective? Reisman has got some weird ideas (I’m not sure what his musings on opportunity cost are, yet) but he also has some damn good work out there, particularly on exploitation.
-Jon