Excerpt from Spitznagel’s Dao of Capital

09/06/2013 Mises Wire Peter G. Klein

Institutional Investor is running an excerpt from Mark Spitznagel’s excellent book The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World (Wiley, 2013). Ron Paul wrote the foreword, and I provided this dust-jacked blurb:

Mark Spitznagel has done a remarkable job summarizing, synthesizing, and extending the great Austrian tradition, and weaving it into a wonderful set of practical lessons. What’s more, he is a great writer and storyteller in the tradition of Bastiat, Hazlitt, and Rothbard, bringing subtle and sometimes complex ideas to life with memorable examples and sparkling prose. Highly recommended!

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