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Excellent books read

May 22, 2023 |

excellent book read over weekend, highly recommended: Friedrich Hayek: A Biography by Alan Ebenstein, and Freedom's Furies by Timothy Sandefur. the Hayek book introduces my to Edwin Cannan, and Friedrich von Wieser. I learned many things, eg Oskar Morgenstern was part of Mises circle.

Hayek's theory of business cycles very relevant to today, depends upon fed keeping interest rates too low and early stages of production being replaced by consumers.

Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim a book that makes you feel ugly after reading it. Sondheim such a bad persona but good on harmony.

Sondheim in a typical gesture cuts off New Yorker interview after 3 months and 48 hrs of interviews because interviewer asks him about Webber.

an agrarian shamelessly boosts the perfect father: JANNET YELLEN SAYS ODDS OF PAYING ALL BILLS BY JUNE 15 `QUITE LOW'

bonds with 7th day down in row refusing to bail those who are stuck with problems so far.

one of Hayek's major points was that gov planning leads inevitably to total restriction of consumer choice. what do we have now saving us - gas stoves, electric cars, air conditioning, tipping - what else?

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