Archives for February 2012

Review | Drood by Dan Simmons

With Charles Dicken’s 200th birthday just passed, perhaps this is an appropriate homage to his work and his life. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was Charles Dickens last novel, but he died before it could be finished. Dan Simmons picks up the mystery, not to solve and finish Dickens’ work, but to provide a back story, the real […]

Review | A Free-Market Monetary System and A Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich A. Hayak

I recently read the short brochure “A Free-Market Monetary System,” a compilation of Friedrich A. Hayak’s 1974 Nobel Prize speech “A Pretense of Knowledge” and a short essay on proposing a free-market monetary system (hence, the name, see?). Both are short, and neither waste any time proposing radical changes to what was then, and indeed what is […]

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