individualism for the masses

BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

Murray Rothbard

Benjamin Tucker Marcus
June 18, 2008

sunday comics

January 28th, 2007 by bkmarcus

With Tom Toles and Ruben Bolling attacking economic freedom with almost every swipe of their pens, it's nice to see a comic strip that can find humor and pathos in unemployment while showing at least some understanding of the larger issues. Maybe Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett — the writers of "On a Claire Day" — are skeptical of the blessings of economic capitalism, but their comic strip isn't guilty of being ... well, cartoonish.


And Wiley Miller's "Non Sequitur" for today speaks to me on multiple levels:

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