Voltaire
November 21st, 2007 by 
bkmarcus
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In honor of the great man, here's my favorite Gen-X reference to Voltaire:
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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.
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."
Benjamin Tucker Marcus
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July 23, 2008
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
So did this character really think "Age of Enlightenment" was itself an "obscure French philosophical reference"? I don't get it. And I don't think the writers do, either. Why would she reply, "Hang on Voltaire?" Why unnecessarily pick a French guy unless she thought the Enlightenment was uniquely French, as this guy implies?