The story goes something like: In the last few years, the Federal Reserve printed up to 80% of all bills that were ever in circulation. While Austrian economists have long recognized the superfluousness of central banking and understand the benefits of a decentralized monetary system, it’s important not to give in to false ideas, even if they appear to support honest ones.

It starts by recognizing the existence of various money supply measures. Perhaps the most shocking is the M1 chart:

Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
by Noam Chomsky, edited by C.J. Polychroniou
Haymarket Books, 2023; x + 330 pp.

George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier is a book for which I kept hearing recommendations. I was told that it contained biting criticisms of socialism and was a valuable source of antiauthoritarian thought.

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
by David Edmonds
Princeton, 2023; xx + 380 pp.