Jeffrey TuckerCritiques

Great collection of essays on our world'S PROGRESS. It starts out with how unimaginable our current world would be to our great grandparents. During the ending it turns into how our great world is being digressed because of govt power.

This was utterly fantastic. The more of Tucker I hear, the more I like Tucker.

For years I've been using the line "if the government weren't making so many damn roads, the free market would have given me a Jetsonmobile by now" so certainly I was interested in this item.

But its not just the roads, and its not just theoretical, we have really overcome the barrier of government in some places, and government actively (attempts) prevents it going the way of the dodo bird in attempts of controlling not only what is on the market, but convincing producers that they need the governments protection. While I good portion of the book is Tucker's review/insight on "Against Intellectual Monopoly" and this certainly made me want to get that book, I think its still great in addition.

This audiobook was pretty good. While some think its double dipping to take your blog posts and turn it into a book, I think it was just fine (though removing the dates would have been helpful).

Its about thinking life differently. That just because everyone else doesn't take apart their shower head to remove the "governor" so that your shower is better, doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

I picked this book because I thought it would be full of examples of "techno optimism" -- instances where the various problems of the day are solved by technological inventions or applications of existing technologies. It does contain some of that. However, it mostly contains libertarian rants against government regulations and red tape. Every chapter is a new rant or outrage. Gets tiring or ridiculous -- especially the chapter that praises the wonders of lard. Not that I like government inefficiencies, but many of the examples are taken out of context or are cherry picked to make our government look as bad as possible.. Also, John Stossel has already written several books on this topic (Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity) and is more entertaining.

This book is a collection previously posted as Mises.org daily articles by Jeffrey Tucker. The topics presented from his libertarian perspective include water usage/household life, commerce, technology, crime, health/manners, food, books, and movies. I found the first half very entertaining and interesting, while some of the latter half about manners, etiquette, and food less so. Especially concerning these topics, Tucker comes off as a bit snobbish (he admits as much), such as his complete disdain for rock music. From a broader perspective this book is a light read with a good bit of humor and sarcasm thrown in. Even though it involves economics, government, law, and commerce, it's easily accessible to anyone not engrossed in such subjects, as he often uses real life examples and stories to illustrate his points.