Mises Daily
Author:
Walter Block
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[Excerpted from Defending the Undefendable ] The miser has never recovered from Charles Dickens’s attack on him in A Christmas Carol . Although the miser had been sternly criticized before Dickens, the depiction of Ebenezer Scrooge has become definitive and has passed into the folklore of our time. Indeed, the attitude pervades even in freshman