The Economic Mind in American Civilization: Volume I-III by Joseph Dorfman

Status: One Round of QC (02.06.2014)

EPUB (Volume I): https://mega.co.nz/#!OBh0URIa!fwvzg-RwnfHycnw0P8V_KfXELcj5P-KkykVw-tKEqtg
EPUB (Volume II): https://mega.co.nz/#!Wdx2CKYL!MSExM4MM50nmTujY9ivdUTIFeFXJA1DvYSVsqlVELWU
EPUB (Volume III): https://mega.co.nz/#!GFJFVZ4I!gJJcbV8ouLyQKAvno8Nz0lOEQDY0MdQu-T1fY5PcvhE

Based off of these scans:

Volume I (1608-1865): https://mises.org/document/4909/The-Economic-Mind-in-American-Civilization-16061865-Volume-One
Volume II (1608-1865): https://mises.org/document/4910/The-Economic-Mind-in-American-Civilization-16061865-Volume-Two
Volume III (1865-1918) (Archive.org): https://archive.org/details/economicmindinam033113mbp
Volume IV and Volume V (1918-1933) were printed in 1969 (I think), and I can't seem to find any digital versions (don't believe these are in the public domain anyway (?)).

Fix Notes (Volume I):

Page 123: par. 3: country

Maryland followed with an act like Virginia’s, and the supporters there added that the act did not raise the rents of tenants, for it was not to the landlord’s interest to exact an exorbitant rent in a counry where land may be had on easy terms.

Page 490: par. 1: Bollmann’s

Bollmann might have been exaggerating in claiming that Baring, who had signed the Bullion Report, had sent him a flattering answer after seeing the manuscript; but Bollman’s letter did accord with the policy of the British government.

Page 491: par. 2: Bollmann

Turning to political arguments, Bollman showed that he was as good as the next man in using democratic arguments when the occasion suggested.

Page vi (Page 516 of the PDF): Footnotes: 23 is missing a closing quote.

Page xxix (Page 539 of the PDF): Footnotes: 59 is missing a closing quote.

QUESTIONABLE:

Page 432: par. 1: division (?)

It will accumulate in individuals and families despite provisions for alienation of estates and divison of intestate estates, for the industrious must gather the wealth of the profligate.

CHANGES:

Page 4: bottom of the page: I removed this "footnote 1", as it only states that "All bibliographic references will be found at the end of this volume".

QUESTION:

Part I + Books??? How exactly was this split? (In Volume III there are only Parts, and no "Books").

Fix Notes (Volume II):

Page 617: par. 1: candidate

The Whigs elected their candiate, General William Henry Harrison, the Indian fighter, in 1840 by taking full advantage of the sneer of a Democrat that the General would be happy inside a log cabin with some hard cider.

Page 679: par. 1: treatise

In 1849 Kellogg avowedly based his scheme on an inconvertible currency, but made his appeal both to the “workingmen” and the businessmen, as the grandiose title of his treastise suggests: [...]

Page 689: par. 1: precarious

So he continued to maintain a percarious existence as newspaperman and farmer.

Page 733: par. 2: address

In his inaugural addess he denounced rigid conservatism, the stifling of curiosity and the spirit of independence, and incompetent lazy teachers who merely heard students recite the contents of a textbook.

Page 804: par. 1: economy

They sounded more profound than “political eco-omy.”

Page 855: par. 2: congratulated

On the eighth he congratuated the Charleston banks for agreeing to curtail credits only slightly because the policy will immediately restore commercial confidence.

Page xxx (526 of the PDF): Index: "Cardozo, Jacob Nuñez" has an accidental comma at the very end.

QUESTIONABLE:

Page 643: bottom par.: this paragraph is just plopped in by accident?

"up all over the state, and a state convention was even held. As one shrewd observer of the day noticed, the party consisted “as well of [...]

Page 949: par. 1: This quote doesn't have a closing quote. I added a closing quote right before superscript 12.

“So we must know our powers of resistance. It becomes the South to increase its strength and weight in the Union, construct its railroads, extend its commerce, build up its manufactures, protect its arts, endow its universities and colleges, provide for its schools and prepare . . . for whatever God has in store. . . .12

CHANGES:

Moved "The Jackson Wage-Earner Thesis" to before the Index.

QUESTION:

Part II + Books??? How exactly was this split? (In Volume III there are only Parts, and no "Books").

Fix Notes (Volume III):

Page 31: par. 2: government's

These included the retention of federal forces in the South as well as of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was the economic arm of the federal govenment’s intervention.

Page 143: par. 2: There is no closing quote. I added one before Footnote 3

“Turn light into the caverns of ignorance, and the bats will whirr about your ears. [...]

Page 159: par. 1: Encyclopedia

In the realm of thought he had a lasting value. Not least among his contributions was his widely used The Encylopedia of Social Reform (1897), which in 1908 was revised as The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform.

Page 381: par. 3: There is no closing quote. I added one before Footnote 35

“Cost is the long-run refusal price below which, as a margin, the advantages of some alternative activity will tip the scales.³⁵

Page 408: par. 2: approximately

While such expansion was inflationary, he contended that it would be safe if it were continued until the long-term rate of interest fell to appoximately 2 1/2 or 3 per cent.

Page 456: par. 0: cycle

Mitchell brought diligent academic research to bear on the concept of the cyle.

Page lxvii (Page 575 of the PDF): Index: "History of the Greenbacks with Special Reference to the Economic Consequences of Their Issue: 1862-1865, A, by W. C. Mitchell" is missing a page number. It should state

History of the Greenbacks with Special Reference to the Economic Consequences of Their Issue: 1862-1865, A, by W. C. Mitchell, 475

QUESTIONABLE:

In Volume III, he uses "DeBow". In Volume I and II, "De Bow" was used. Should these be normalized?

Page 283: par. 2: entrepreneurial (?)

He gave as the reasons that such profits, having arisen from monopoly privileges such as land sites, patents, franchises, trusts, good will, etc., were the returns not of industry but of certain fixed social relations and rights; that, like rent of land, they tended to engross all the gains of progress; that they differed from the true entrepreneural profits because the latter arose from the ability and risks of the entrepreneur and were temporary and contingent; and that permanent monopoly profits might originally have been the personal profits of the entrepreneur, but, when capitalized, became permanent profits.

Page 376: par. 0: Ph.D. (?)

He apparently attended no classes, but within a year took all the examinations for the four-year course and received a Ph.B.

Page 437: par. 1: experiment (?)

The supreme principle in “the development of knowledge” was the “activity of the experient subject itself.”

CHANGES:

I removed the "Also by Joseph Dorfman" page right in the beginning.

Page 4: Footnote *: I removed this, since it didn't make sense in this EPUB. All footnotes are at the end of the chapters.

The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution by John T. Flynn

Status: One Round of QC (01.26.2014)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!uFJ3gKYS!eH0gGH89bUpWkI35jp_4Okbr-oKP1BczSW_gebSBVSI

Fix Notes:

Page 83: par. 2: committee

They control him and the CIO through their seats on his executive committe.

Liberalism in America by Harold Stearns

Status: One Round of QC (01.25.2014)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!PYRUnZyJ!iXD7iFyH2yHt71AsAzM2Tqco_kte9fVnQNiH32CZHHU

This book was recommended by user hobochangba on the LibertyHQ forums. I based it off of this scan on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cu31924030252559

Fix Notes:

Page 51: par. 0: succinctly

[...] tolerance” (see note above) succintly says: [...]

Page 62: footnote: fortunately

Most of our younger ones, unlike the European nations, we forunately did not lose on the battlefield.

Page 66: par. 2: sympathize

Liberalism, from its very philosophy, cannot and does not sypathize with this method of making the world a better place to live in.

Page 76: par. 1: truthfully

In all this, however, the creative side of life was practically ignored: we might say truthfuly that the human drive back of this development of American liberalism was rather the thwarting of the possessive instincts by the hard facts of our economic life than a positive stimulus towards creative activity.

Page 98: par. 1: vacuum

Into the vcacuum of real opinion of our war aims, which the liberals struggled so feebly to make in some realistic sense conform with the pious announcements of the President and which many other intelligent men

Page 102: par. 1 (very end of page): imagination

It took very little imaginaton [...]

Page 105: par. 1: hierarchy

In varying degrees this problem is present wherever there is organization and a heirarchy of officials.

Page 119: par. 0: coffee

[...] ignorant official who does not understand even what he means, that he can still go to his clubs, and that his wife will not reproach him over the morning coffe for being a fool.

Page 153: par. 0: occur

[...] against the general conventions and beliefs current in his time and his community, and against the neurotic tricks of his own temperament which occasionally will ocur even in the psychologically most normal and healthy of men.

Page 231: par. 1: inheritance

Nevertheless during this rather barren interregnum spiritual period which we are facing the liberal has a peculiar duty towards the art and culture which is our common inheritatnce from the past and towards those few adventurous people who in a time of turmoil and materialism venture to assert the supremacy of different values.

Page 234: Bibliography: anonymously

The State. By Franz Oppenheimer. Bobbs-Merrill; 1914. (Translated from the German anoymously.)

Questionable:

Page 83: par. 0: disturbed (?)

This anger would have resulted, as I have said, partly from an acquiescent ignorance, partly from a desire not to be disturbel in our rapid making of money, and finally from the fact that the people who most violently and powerfully opposed our neutrality policy were just those whom the ordinary man suspected of a desire to get us into war — and as a nation we wanted peace.

Changes:

I removed the "Liberalism in America" before Chapter 1, it was redundant.

In chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 I changed the blockquote authors to be right aligned.

Revolt on the Campus by M. Stanton Evans

Status: One Round of QC (12.11.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!2BhHDbIa!GdYIA14d75cCBWcwlYJzLSCZVWVJpxqOHhOXKaZvStk

Fix Notes:

Page 65: par. 0: pamphlets

[...] be glad to send them their pamplets.

Page 65: par. 1: beginnings

Such were the modest biginnings of 1953. In the eight years since, they have been extended, not by high-pressure campaigning, but by the slow accretion of consent.

Page 105: par. 5: phenomenon

And his own following among college students has swollen into a massive national phenonemon.

Page 113: par. 0: organization

An endorsement by an infant organiaztion would do Nixon very little good; those who wanted his election could best achieve it [...]

Page 117: Footnote: between

[...] a radio appearance by author-editor Frank Meyer; speeches by Walter Judd and Senator Barry Goldwater; a debate betweeen William F. Buckley, Jr. and Charles Taft; [...]

Page 146: Footnote: social

A good deal of this jargon is borrowed from the graceless vocabulary of the socal scientists.

Page 228: par. 2: Committee’s

(Among the Central Committeee’s Iron Curtain members were Professor Josef Hromadka of Czechoslovakia, and Bishop Lajos Veto, a member of the Communist Hungarian Parliament.)

Page 248: Index: "VanHorne, Grant" accidentally missing a space. Should be "Van Horne, Grant"


QUESTION:

Page 162: par. 4: purusal (?)

The delegates were told that “rather than a rally of student support, the conference will be a serious persual of all important aspects of the Peace Corps proposals.”

The Meaning of Ludwig von Mises edited by Jeffrey M. Herbener

Status: One Round of QC (12.07.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!3NAikAKS!K3ofgmnmYiOKTzSvwCsZUh4q2wIMt7qNwK9VcbzuIbo

Fix Notes:

Page 47: "Roger A. Arnold" shouldn't be italic, the authors in all the other chapters are not italic.

Page 57: Footnote 5: "Penn," to "Penn."

[...] a slightly shorter version of Haberler’s essay may be found as an appendix to Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom (Spring Mills, Penn,: Libertarian Press, 1980), [...]

Page 60: Footnote 13: "Liberty Fund"

Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, 3rd rev. ed. (1912; 2nd rev. ed., 1924; Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Funf, 1981).

Page 69: Footnote 36: Missing a closing period.

Page 71: par. 0: no spaces in the first line (?)

Page 112: Footnote 16: Revisited

[...] “‘Unreal Assumptions’ in Economic Theory: the F-Twist Revisted,” [...]

Page 133: Footnote 11: Space needs to be removed

[...] and The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth (Princeton, N .J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1962).

Page 159: Footnote 30: needs a space

More precisely still: it is structured according to thecategories of logic, arithmetic and protophysics (including geometry).

Page 167: Footnote 2: Spring

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest (1889; Sping Mills, Penn.: Libertarian Press, 1959).

Page 232: par. 0: remove the space at the end of blockquote

The determination of prices has, as far as the mutual exchange ratios between various commodities are concerned, no direct causal relationship whatever with the prices of the past .80

Page 250: Footnote 9: remove the space

A short review of the price stabilization movement is found in Murray N. Rothbard, America’s Great Depression , 4th ed. (1963; New York: Richardson & Synder, 1983), pp. 153-64.

Page 257: Footnote 29 at the very bottom of the page should not belong on that page. There is a duplicate (and the actual footnote in the text) on page 258.

Page 262: Footnote 39: maneuvers

For a full account of Durant’s devious manuevers, [...]

Page 266: "H.E. Batson" changed to "H. E. Batson" (to match the style of the rest of the book)

Page 277: par. 0: needs a space added

[...] supplementedby yesterday’s wild extravagances, should emphasize [...]

Page 284: Thanking footnote: "M.E. Bradford" changed to "M. E. Bradford" (to match the style of the rest of the book)

Page 285: footnote 4: This quotation needs to be flipped to a closing Right Double Quote.

[...] but by this he meant social systems characterized by “stagnation” and “rigidity,” where the purpose of government is to “prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy. “This definition of conservatism would apply to Eastern cultures and Bismarckian welfarism.

Page 298: par. 1: twentieth

Neither did Mises sympathize with twenieth-century feminism.

Page 310: bottom par.: there is a footnote number 81.

Page 317: bottom par.: There is a colon accidentally in the superscript of Footnote 104.

3. Mises can be seen as typical of twentieth-century laissez-faire economics^104: the advocates of free markets have largely been associated with cultural traditionalism.

Page 330: Footnote 26: Missing a closing period.

NOTES:

I removed the multiple title pages (page 2 of the PDF, page 4 of the PDF).

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market by Wilhelm Röpke

Status: One Round of QC (12.01.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!XdB2nSIL!JuNKo35fTFSNlV_SkEQ9zRjRQQtVyzxfzEa-_onGjcg

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 60-9661

Fix Notes:

Page 158: par. 0: "Lloyd’s Bank Review" should be "Lloyds Bank Review" (to match the other usages in the book)

Page 215: par. 1: responsibility

It certainly has the ultimate responsibilty.

Page 224: par. 1: between

I would go so far as to deny the justice of calling anyone a deflationist in the same sense in which his opposite number may be called an inflationist, for the simple reason that, as we know, there exists an asymmetry betwen inflation and deflation.

Page 282: Footnote 33: "M. Friedmann" needs to be "M. Friedman"

Page 305: Index on the right column: "Friedmann, M.," needs to be "Friedman, M.,"

Page 308: Index on the right column under "Mass state—cont.": "industralization" -> industrialization

NOTE:

I removed the "secondary title page" on page 15 of the PDF (right before Chapter 1). It doesn't make much sense in the ebook edition.

Page 282: bottom right corner is missing.

QUESTION:

Page 201-202: last par. to next page: savings (?)

Thus saving, which got such poor marks in the theories inspired by Keynes, is again assigned the place of honor which common sense always regarded as saving’s due.

Page 239: bottom par.: dependencies (?)

The trade-union itself becomes one of those “organizations” which are an expression of growing concentration; it creates, in its turn, new vertical dependences and new hierarchies with an above and a below, with bosses and subordinates.

Do We Want Free Enterprise? by Vernon Orval Watts

Status: One Round of QC (11.29.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!yZIA1b5Z!QNENTg2Yv9P-_E55i68krVesOlESb7DHgukpT-vn-N0

Fix Notes:

Page 48: Footnote: Missing opening quote

Page 71: in Table: "autombiles" -> automobiles

NOTES:

Page 71: Table was "verticalized"

Changed Footnotes from * to numbered.

I probably need to rethink the typography of the book.... all of these negative indents/lists do not work in EPUB. I think it looks pretty hideous.

Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation by Walter Block

Status: One Round of QC (11.27.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!3RgnxQoI!CqdX2VsxxBX8BWaKYl9laFrlujIhd2_k2s0l0HqMMOY

Fix Notes:

copyright page: "ISNB" instead of "ISBN"

page xix: Under "Murray N. Rothbard": Should be a semi-colon

His 16 books include The Panic of 1819; Man Economy, and State; America’s Great Depression, The Ethics of Liberty; Power and Market; and Conceived in Liberty.

Page 4: bottom blockquote: Missing '('

The malfunctioning of the market system is, we think, both a reflection and a cause of some of our problems, however, and we urge a more realistic appreciation of how our economy really functions. Cordell 1976, p. 36).

Page 5: par. 5: under-priced (to match other usages in the book)

As a result, non-renewable resources are underpriced and are being extracted at excessive rates.

Page 18: par. 3: well-being (to match other usages in the book)

Presently, the one that will better maximize consumer wellbeing.

Page 22: bottom par.: one-dimensional

The shortcoming of this attachment to one- dimensional scarcity is that it overemphasizes the necessity of specific inputs in meeting society’s needs.

Page 41: par. 1: There is an accidental space before the closing period.

Leonard Waverman found that while energy accounted for only 6.2 percent of total expenditure for the average Canadian family in 1969, it accounted for over 8.9 percent of expenditures for the very poorest families with an income under $3,000, (Waverman, p. 85) . Clearly, the impact of higher energy prices on the poor is greater than for others.

Page 44: bottom par.: There is actually a space right before "Good will is at best [...]"

Page 51: first in list: dumb quotes -> smart quotes + a space needed

a disposal tax on some forms of packaging and on some"throwaway" products

Page 54: par. 3: "figure l" (lowercase 'l') should be a number '1'

For this reason, MC slopes upward; further bushels are obtainable only at increasing cost in terms of what is being sacrificed elsewhere. In figure l, the upward-sloping MC intersects the downward-sloping MB at a dollar price per bushel of P_O at quantity W_O.

Page 54: bottom par.: should be a number 1, instead of the lowercase letter 'l'

Similarly, if we begin at W_l, marginal costs exceed marginal benefits for units beyond WO

Page 54-55: The subscripts are capital letter 'O', and should be a number '0'

Page 60: par. 0: Footnote "7" should actually be a 4.

Page 65: Note on very bottom of page: reduction

The uniform redution means that for firm 1 the last unit of pollution reduction has a cost equal to a₁, whereas for firm 2 the corresponding cost is a₂.

Page 75: Table 5: "1975 Carlifornia standards" should be "California"

Page 76: Table 5: "1975 Califronia standards" should be "California"

Page 84: par. 0: Space after the parenthesis (could have been a typographical move?)

is dependent on a bountiful supply of old maids ( Hardin, p. 39).

Page 88: par. 1: Missing closing period at the end

The political marketplace does not respond to individual preferences as quickly as traditional markets, but at some point the response will be felt and politicians who continue to support transfers from consumers and tax-payers to conservationists will be defeated

Page 91: Under "Hardin, Garrett": “The Tradegy of the Commons” should be "Tragedy"

Page 95: first blockquote: There is a space before the comma after PBS:

—PBS , “National Geographic Special: Playground or Paradise” (1983)

Page 114: References: The year should be italics, it is in the title of the book.

Hayes S. P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959).

Page 135: Footnote 10: There is a "1" at the very end. I removed it.

Page 135: Footnote 20: Is accidentally numbered "10"

Page 139: First blockquote: particularly

A recent shift of interest in that direction and a growing recognition of the importance of the analysis of politics, presage a new momentum in the development of economics, particulary in industrial organization, public choice and economic history (Cheung 1978, pp. 67-68).

Page 147: par. 5: the

In light of th near extinction of several furbearing species, state control of wildlife seemed like the only alternative.

Page 149: Second blockquote: Quotation mark should be removed.

The bottom line is better hunting, more shooting, and a happier end to each excursion. What more can the outdoor sportsman ask for?" (Fishing and Hunting News, April 1982, p. 8).

Page 161: par. 2: CO₂ (Letter 'O', not the number '0')

This means cutting back on C0₂, which is considered the chief greenhouse gas, but also methane, nitrous oxides, and CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), all of which also are believed to trap heat radiating from the earth.

Page 161: par. 2: the comma should not be included in the subscript

Methane is considered particularly dangerous because, even though it is a “trace gas” (existing in very small quantities) it traps twenty times as much heat as CO_2, molecule for molecule.

Page 162: par. 4 (right below "Global Warming"): CO₂ (Letter 'O', not the number '0')

The claim that the climate is getting warmer goes back to the 1890s when Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist, contended that the unprecedented amount of C0₂ entering the atmosphere would eventually lead to global warming. Since then, scientists have generally agreed that the amount of C0₂ in the atmosphere is increasing.

Page 164: par. 2: CO₂ (Letter 'O', not the number '0')

Only about half of the 5.5 billion tons of carbon produced per year by the consumption of fossil fuels turns up in the atmosphere as CO₂, explains Solow, and climatologists assume that the rest is stored in the ocean.

Page 164: par. 4: CO₂ (Letter 'O', not the number '0')

If there are far more plankton due to the increased CO<MV>2<D>, there will be more droplets, which reflect more sunlight than normal clouds do and therefore would help cool the earth.

Page 165: par. 2: CO₂ (Letter 'O', not the number '0')

No strong evidence of warming caused by C0₂ or other greenhouse gases has been found so far. Even the evidence of global warming itself is less than conclusive.

Page 169: par. 4: CFCs

A number of chemical companies are making large investments in “soft” CFCS, which break down before they reach the stratosphere. But these are not as effective as their “hard” counterparts.

Page 170: par. 2: dumb quotes -> smart quotes

Indeed, a New York Times headline which hammered home the urgency of the matter—"Hickory Disappearing, Supply of Wood Nears End: Much Wasted and There’s No Substitute"—was typical.

Page 176: Footnote 5: Missing a space in between "p.39"

Page 176: Footnote 11: Missing a space in between "p.37"

Page 176: Footnote 24: Missing a space in between "p.433"

Page 176: Footnote 26: Missing a space in between "p.11"

Page 176: Footnote 27: Missing a space in between "p.5"

Page 177: Footnote 28: Extra space between opening quote and "Aircleaners in the Ocean"

Page 178: Footnote 55: Missing a space in between "p.46"

Page 178: Footnote 60: dumb quotes -> smart quotes + needs a space

S. Schneider,"The Greenhouse Effect: Science and Policy,"

Page 196: par. 1: AIDS

But as AIDs sufferers and the families of those who have died waiting for federal approval of new drugs can attest, “zero risk” is actually a very dangerous strategy.

Page 205: par. 3: dumb quotes -> smart quotes

In addition to their implications for stewardship and conservation, three-dimensional ("3-D") property rights also play an important role in stimulating creative and anticipatory investments.

Page 213: Footnote 32: "Martin t. Katzman" should be changed to an uppercase "T"

Page 217: par. 3: Footnote 2 is missing a space after it.

Page 238: par. 2: dumb quotes -> smart quotes

Thus, within the standard law of trespass—an invasion of person or property—"battery" is the actual invasion of someone else’s body, while “assault” is the creation by one person in another of a fear, or apprehension, of battery.17

Page 247: Missing a space in between "p.707"

One is the curious argument that “just as the employer gets and benefits from the gains for his worker’s activities, so too should he be required to bear the losses from these activities” (Epstein 1977, p.707).

Page 247: end of blockquote: Needs a space

the endlessly repeated formula of “respondeat superior,” which in itself means nothing more than “look to the man higher up”(Prosser 1971, p. 459).

Page 247: par. after end of blockquote: Needs a space

“In hard fact, the reason for the employers’ liability is the damages are taken from a deep pocket.”(Prosser 1971, p. 459).

Page 263: par. 3: Footnote "84D" -> "84"

Page 266: Footnote 5: Missing/Wrong quotation marks.

See the article launching this analysis by Ronald H. Coase, “The Problem of Social Cost, p. 10. For a critique, see Walter Block, ”Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights," pp. 111–115.

Page 266: Footnote 6: Missing closing quotation mark after “Injunction Negotiations: An Economic, Moral and Legal Analysis

Page 268: Footnote 17: Needs a space

“Apprehension”of an imminent battery is a more appropriate term then “fear,” since it stresses the awareness of a coming battery and of the action causing that awareness by the aggressor,

Page 272: Footnote 45: the 2 is not squared (it is in other areas in the book): “Torts: Trespass, Nuisance and E = mc2,”

Page 272: Footnote 46: Missing a space in between "pp.496-503"

Page 273: Footnote 56: double commas should just be one

Holman v. Athens Empire Laundry Co., 149 Ga. 345, 350,,100 S.E. 207, 210 (1919).

Page 273: Footnote 64: Needs a space

On the “tragedy of the commons” and private ownership, see, for example, Garrett Hardin, “The Tragedy of the Commons,”pp. 1243-1248; Robert J. Smith, “Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife,” pp. 439-468.

Page 276: References: Needs a space

Egger, John B., “Comment: Efficiency Is Not a Substitute for Ethics,”in Time, Uncertainty, and Disequilibrium: Exploration of Austrian Themes, M. Rizzo, ed. (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1979).

Page 277: Under "Epstein, Richard A.", there is a space that occurs right before:

_____,“A Theory of Strict Liability,” Journal of Legal Studies 2 (January 1973).

Page 325: Footnote 49: industry + consistently

[...] efficiency—these are the hallmarks of free enterprise in every other industy, and the present one is no exception.

But not all authors and organizations ostensibly devoted to applying free market principles to the environment carry through rigorously and consistantly with the logic of their own analysis.

Page 330: Footnote 85 is missing a period at the end.

STYLE CHOICE:

There were inconsistent spacing issues between First Initial + Middle Initial. There were ~200 combined, and ~50 uncombined. I decided to combine nearly all of them.

Page 33: bottom par.: "E. R. Berndt" -> "E.R. Berndt"

A recent study by E. R. Berndt and David O. Wood finds that technological change in post-war U.S. manufacturing has been labour-saving and energy-using.

Page 52: par. 5: "A. C. Pigou" -> "A.C. Pigou" (matching style)

Full cost pricing as recommended by the Gamma group is very much in the spirit of proposals to deal with externalities suggested by economist A. C. Pigou in 1918.

Page 64: par. 6: "U. S. S. R." -> "U.S.S.R."

Well-known U.S. economist Marshall Goldman argues that the U. S. S. R. “is a chronicle of environmental disruption that is as serious as almost any that exists in the world (Goldman 1970, pp. 37-42).”

page 113-115: References:

Page 173: par. 3: "U. S." -> "U.S."

We have already seen how U. S. environmental policies have, quite understandably, been more responsive to powerful political interests than to the environmental problem at hand.

There were 4 "et.al.", 1 "et. al.", and 12 "et al.". I changed them all to "et al."

There were 11 "et al." italicized, I removed the italics to make them consistent.

I changed the underscores in the References sections to three "em dashes".

In the references section, whenever journals were referenced... there were 35 of these:

Journal of Law and Economics 18
Journal of Farm Economics 47

And there were ~9 of these (notice the comma between Journal Name + Journal Number):

Columbia Law Review, 60

I removed the comma to match current typography standards (this is the way we handle the journals + journal numbers at the Mises Institute). Plus it makes it consistent.

NOTES:

I moved all the footnotes to the end of each chapter (after References).

Page 300: I moved the table to before "Parkland" on page 299, and I "verticalized" the table.

Away from Freedom by Vernon Orval Watts

Status: One Round of QC (11.27.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!7QZg2SgI!Wt8LaCFW4UwzUxDccckMPX4An-VbHhfZNwBDMnXlsow

ISBN: 978-1-61016-110-7
eISBN: 978-1-61016-485-6

Fix Notes:

Page 14: par. 4: possibility

The student will find in Keynesian textbooks little objection to any government “investment” except the possibilty that it may temporarily reduce employment by discouraging timid investors in competing private industries.

Page 15: par. 2: extra quotation by accident

In other words, the Keynesian proposal for “compensatory”’ deficit spending by government implies abandonment of the gold standard in favor of a “managed currency,” that is, inconvertible paper money, or fiat currency.

Page 19: par. 1: Samuelson

He might also ask why Sam-ueleson believes a 10-billion dollar deficit in future will not lead to printing money or selling interest-free bonds to the Federal Reserve Banks, whereas much smaller deficits in the past led to large issues of paper money in this country and necessitated large purchases of government securities at nominal interest rates.

Page 26: par. 1: administer

The function of government is to adminster justice, that is, to preserve freedom, not to dictate activities.

Page 64: par. 3: counterfeiter

Instead, it enables those to whom the government gives the new currency to get goods without giving goods in exchange—as a countefeiter does.

Page 69: par. 3: double comma

We came into the period of the second World War with a heavy obsolescence, a large body of unused technological ideas, and a great deal of idle capital,, and, as shown by the foregoing table, with 9,080,000 men unemployed, on the average, in the year 1939.

Page 78: bottom par.: political

There are only various estimates arrived at by bureaucrats subject to polti-cal pressure and bureaucratic red tape.

Page 94: par. 0: messed up right quotation

[...] or relationships used in national-income analysis is fixed or stable, not even the “propensity to save’‘’ or the rate of turnover of funds.

Page 105: Footnote 31: Accidentally is number "13"

Page 105: Footnote 48: Economic

(Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Ecoonmic Education, 1947),

Page 105: Footnote 50 says "05".

QUESTION:

Page 33: par. 1: moreover (?)

In general, moveover, Keynesian proposals for “compensatory” policies follow Marxian Socialism in seeking to force individuals to obey the rule, [...]

NOTES:

I added periods to the numbering on page 28-29, 53-54.

Page 37-39: Footnote 41 is missing in the text.

A Foreign Policy for Americans by Robert A. Taft

Status: One Round of QC (11.24.2013)

EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!eYIXzaQB!ZgM2n1FLSyUjdq56NkWKf357uZYxZHS-KHHMHQIyrz8

Fix Notes:

None.