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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 and managing editor of Mises.org.

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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Benjamin Tucker Marcus
February 19, 2010

October 17th, 2007 by

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An email from a stranger (probably in reference to “ancient Chinese secret”):

無為

From: Manuel
Date: Oct 17, 2007 1:31 PM
Subject: Wu Wei (laizze faire)
To: bkmarcus.com
Check out “The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation” by John Hobson (Cambridge University Press) for an excellent discussion on the Chinese origins of laizze-faire (wu wei).
Hobson traces the transmission of wu-wei from Jesuit missionaries to Francouis Quesnay (aka “The European Confucius”).

http://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Origins-Western-Civilisation/dp/0521547245

Caution: Eurocentrists and Europhiles beware of this book. It will break your heart to discover that the majority of “inventions” and ideas of pre-1500 Europe are EASTERN in their origins.

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