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[quote name='Don John of Austria' timestamp='1306471443' post='2246574']
Iknow I failed to get abck to you on books about distributism, I'll see what I can do about online sources.
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Thanks! I found some stuff here [url="http://distributistreview.com/"]http://distributistreview.com/[/url] but that is about all i have found on the internet.

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[quote name='Era Might' timestamp='1306462893' post='2246466']
Not to be confused with the Dostoevsky character of the same name lol.[/QUOTE]



Tolstoy. Assuming that you're refering to "The Death of Ivan Illych". There could be a Dostoevsky character with the same name that I don't remember.

[QUOTE]Ivan Illich was actually German by birth, but lived in Latin America and the United States most of his adult life. Most of his economic writings are written in that context of Latin America and the United States, and more specifically, in the context of the ideology of "development" in the mid to late 20th century. He was not an "economist," but wrote more broadly on the consequences of economic realities in modern society.
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Given the general trend of economic thought in Latin America during the mid to late 20th century I'd be highly skeptical of anything he said. But I will look him up.

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[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1306491464' post='2246689']
Given the general trend of economic thought in Latin America during the mid to late 20th century I'd be highly skeptical of anything he said. But I will look him up.
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I was skeptical of him too when I first starting reading him, although for other reasons. He ended up changing my life.

Two other books of his most directly related to economics are "Shadow Work," which is about industrialization's wage labor, and "Gender," which deals with the effect industrialization has had on our conception of gender.

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Winchester

[quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1306459700' post='2246438']
Fxd 4 da lulz!
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Debt doesn't matter is popular. That popularity has not helped Europe.

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Nihil Obstat

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306547273' post='2246942']
Whoa, Human Action is 1000 pages on my Nook *sigh* better get to work.
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When I decide to tackle that, I'll probably go a chapter at a time, very slowly (taking time to process it), and probably take about a year to get through the whole thing.

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306547273' post='2246942']
Whoa, Human Action is 1000 pages on my Nook *sigh* better get to work.
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Wow. You're not playing around, eh? I've had it in the back of my mind to read that text one day too.

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[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1306563972' post='2247001']
Wow. You're not playing around, eh? I've had it in the back of my mind to read that text one day too.
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well, its actually about my third or fourth (or fifth or sixth) priority right now... behind the Bible, Catechism, and some other stuff.

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306702096' post='2247484']
well, its actually about my third or fourth (or fifth or sixth) priority right now... behind the Bible, Catechism, and some other stuff.
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I hear ya. :smile3:

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[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1306703107' post='2247493']
I hear ya. :smile3:
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yeah, i've been really busy lately too, I wish there were more hours in the day.

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Laudate_Dominum

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306773276' post='2247675']
yeah, i've been really busy lately too, I wish there were more hours in the day.
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this!

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Nihil, i'm reading your second suggestion right now... i'll let you know what i think shortly

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[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1306989368' post='2249064']
Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson?
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yep, in terms of length and depth, it seems to be what i'm looking for right now. BTW, have you ever heard of a book called the Incredible Bread Machine? I read it a number of years ago, pretty interesting.

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Nihil Obstat

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1306989717' post='2249066']
yep, in terms of length and depth, it seems to be what i'm looking for right now. BTW, have you ever heard of a book called the Incredible Bread Machine? I read it a number of years ago, pretty interesting.
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Yeah, Economics in One Lesson keeps getting mentioned as the greatest starting point for Austrian economics. I've got it in my queue, but you know how it is getting to stuff like that sometimes. :lol:
I feel like I have heard of that book... I can't say that I can remember anything about it at the moment though. What's it about?

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