James Buchanan

Yeah, but that, I think that already exists in German, right? Anatomy of State, of the State.

How about What Has the Government Done to Our Money?

Yeah.

That is, of course, his best-selling thing, What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Yeah, Power and Market and What Has Government Done to Our Money? would be top of my list for the average person who is not a scholar and wanted to read Man, Economy, and State takes a lot more effort than, uh, Power and Market.

I, I have experience personally recommending Rothbard books, and I, I would say Anatomy of the State, What Has Government Done to Our Money, and, uh, The Mystery of Banking.

If you, these three give you a very good insight on, on Murray Rothbard's thought, and they are short and, and very easy to understand.

Maybe Man, Economy, and State is a huge book.

Revival is the imparting of life to those who are spiritually dead and the imparting of health to those who are dying.

James Buchanan says, I love this one, Duncan Campbell.

Revival is a community saturated with God.

Very interesting, Duncan Campbell.

You know, we tend to look at political candidates as, People just like us, they're trying to make the world a better place, and I think they are just like us, but trying to make the world a better place isn't really their agenda.

Their agenda is getting elected, and that's something James Buchanan, an economist who wrote about this in the 80s, won a Nobel Prize.

Politicians are like us.

They have their own incentives, and they're trying to get elected, and we shouldn't assume that they're out there trying to make the world a better place.

And Barker learns this.

She doesn't talk about James Buchanan, but she sees it's a pretty ugly world.

And she becomes, you know, by the end we see she gets married, she's a mother, and is very disillusioned with what she sees in her experience in Washington.

You know, money is the mother milk of politics.

Not Pat Buchanan, folks.

No. James, right? James Buchanan.

Yeah.

Um, and a couple different times they gave it to people who pointed out the, the positive effects on an economy of institutions like private property, freedom of association, sturdy contracts, stuff like that.

Yeah.

Uh, so definit- definitely wanted business, and I understood that Mason, um, you know, they had just, uh, had a, uh, Dr. James Buchanan had just won a-

Mm-hmm

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