Douglas Morton

It's OK, Not Great Though

Revisado: 11-01-24

I'm already a libertarian, but I think the points in this book are not very persuasive. The authors don't spend enough time offering arguments to support their visions. A no libertarian probably would only be persuaded a little bit here and there. But it's still decent.

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I hate the narrator

Revisado: 07-02-24

I couldn't finish the book. Gave up around 20 minutes in. The narrator is so overly serious, cheesy, and cliche that I just can't stand it. The same narrator does the whole series, too. This series needs a new narrator fast.

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Mostly Cliche Garbage

Revisado: 02-22-24

This was painful to listenn to. I only listened to it because my wife asked me to, but even she admitted this one sucked in the series. The entire book is a cliche and nauseating. Though I wonder if the voice narrator made it worse because the narrator's voice is extremely cliche. Did I mention this book is cliche?

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Good stuff

Revisado: 11-01-23

Full disclosure, I'm a libertarian. This book is pretty good. Not amazing though. It lacks nuance and assumes certain ethical principles are absolute without justification. So, he works from ethical axioms that may not be absolutely true in all cases. But besides that, it's quite good.

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Quite Funny

Revisado: 10-24-23

Loved the whole thing. it's delightfully offensive. This book will probably be banned in a few years.

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Important, Yet Painfully Boring

Revisado: 06-05-23

Yep, it's a classic work that helped awaken humanity's mind to the benefits of free market capitalism. But unless you are a dedicated student of economics, this will not be worth reading for average audiences.

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Boring and Uninformative

Revisado: 04-18-23

The telling is boring. And they don't analyze any of the interesting controversies of the Titans, like questions of monopoly or labor disputes, those are just glazed over.

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A Great Libertarian Book

Revisado: 11-17-22

Hart does a good job defending the moral principle of individual liberty from government control. He also dispels a bunch of common silly myths.

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Meh, it’s ok

Revisado: 07-22-22

One problem is that the author is just incorrect on some economics concepts. He says that free trade only works to a nation’s benefit if other nations also adopt it multilaterally. But economic utility calculations mathematically prove that free trade benefits is even if we’re the only ones doing it unilaterally. In other words, it still benefits us to drop outr tariffs even if no other nation does. Adopting free trade by dropping tariffs isn’t utopian as he says, it’s quite practically beneficial.

Also, he says tariffs for some industries used in military supplies, like steel, are good for national security. This is false for about ten reasons. He just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Also, he just assumes the typical leftist narrative about bad monopolies being created by capitalism. This narrative has been easily debunked by real actual economists. Most so-called monopolies weren’t actually monopolies. And, for any monopolies which actually existed and which are harmful to society, none were created by capitalism, they were all created by government either directly or indirectly.

He showed his left leaning bias at the end of the book. He listed his top ten favorite political science books. One was Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, the modern left’s primary theory. But, this is not a political science book, it’s a political philosophy book. So, the author is misleading the reader and stepping out of his political science job to get you to read a leftist political philosophy book.

Lastly, he didn’t list enough interesting empirical research results on topics that would interest most people.

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Pretty Good

Revisado: 04-24-22

Milton is awesome. This book is pretty good, but I must admit it’s a little boring, even for someone who likes reading this kind of stuff. Milton’s other book, Free To Choose, is better and more interesting, so if you’re looking for one Milton book to read, it should be that, not this.

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