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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"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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April 22nd, 2009 by 
bkmarcus
While discussing my desert-island books with my wife last night, I realized I already carry all those books with me all the time:
You can probably spot Homer and King James there. Mises (and Rothbard) are in Kindle for iPhone (which looks like someone reading under a tree that says “Amazon” dead center).
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April 22nd, 2009 by bkmarcus
… to arguing with libertarians:
If they advocate the abolition of some government program from which they personally benefit, call them hypocrites.
If they advocate the abolition of some government program from which they don’t personally benefit, call them selfish.
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April 22nd, 2009 by bkmarcus
Another reason to celebrate homeschooling.
Skip Oliva writes,
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated it would legalize pedophilia in the United States — at least when the pedophiles are government agents calling themselves “school administrators.” The court heard oral arguments over whether it’s constitutionally permissible for a school to forcibly strip a 13-year-old girl because she was accused of illegally possessing ibuprofen. Really, if this doesn’t conclusively demonstrate the depravity of the American state, nothing will.
Sigh. Read the rest.
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April 22nd, 2009 by bkmarcus
A lowercase liberty classic (aka rerun):
“Is the western liberal tradition a result of clerical celibacy?”
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