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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

the autological grandiloquence of pleonastic and periphrastic circumlocution

May 27th, 2008 by bkmarcus

This line from Human Action strikes me as very funny:

If maximizing profits means that a man in all market transactions aims at increasing to the utmost the advantage derived, it is a pleonastic and periphrastic circumlocution. (243)

It is also a great example, I think, of autological grandiloquence.

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