Mises Daily:
Monday, February 08, 2010
by
Doug French
Our thinking is formed by our reading and it's not enough to only occasionally read serious work while mostly reading useless books, magazines, and newspapers. People don't think the shallow reading harms them, but it does.
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Mises Daily:
Monday, February 08, 2010
by
Robert P. Murphy
Isn't there a way we could tap into people's philanthropic side without doing something intrinsically useless, like having a bunch of fourth graders walk around the school parking lot eight times?
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Mises Daily:
Monday, February 08, 2010
by
H. J. Haskell
Rome set the example to modern Germany of making war profitable. In the half-century following the fall of Carthage, fifty million dollars in tribute and plunder drained into Rome. This sum gave a great opportunity to energetic men.
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