Dear Spencer:
As you can see from at least one post on the EP list I stirred up some wrath
with my "anarcho-capitalism" bit. The undying faith in (Marxist)
collectivism strikes back? But delightful to hear from you. I have not yet
gone to the site for Riegal but will. And am definitely interested in hard
copies as an Old Person with a prejudice for books. You can't be too damn
young yourself if you make such a casual reference to "50 years ago." I
never supposed Pound had final answers; his was a pioneering unwillingness
to be put down. And
Rothbard & Co. I am not sure do either, altho they are mighty impressive. I
regret that I have come to feel that little can be done until the present
situation implodes, which the present regime is pushing along with all
possible energy. Tom


On 1/21/04 2:49 PM, "Spencer H. MacCallum" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Tom White,
>
> It was warming to see references to anarcho-capitalists, Rothbard (whom I
> knew), and such in this discussion. If it's not getting too much off-subject
> for this list, I've been very much interested in the highly original ideas
> of E.C. Riegel on the nature and functioning of money and have wondered what
> Pound might have thought of them. I chanced to be in the right place at the
> right time to save all of Riegel's work from being dumpstered 50 years ago,
> and I've since edited and published a couple of short books from his papers.
> His ideas are quite different from Rothbard's standard hard-money approach,
> although as rigorously libertarian (lower-case). He doesn't fit any of the
> standard categories. You'll find his work at
> http://www.reinventingmoney.com/riegel.php.  If you or others on this list
> should become interested in pursuing this path, I'll send you hard copy of
> the books, which is easier to read than from a computer screen. A number of
> people now are of the opinion that Riegel, as yet little known, represents
> the pinnacle of thought on monetary freedom and exchange.
>
> Oddly, it was through interest in Riegel that I found myself, by a quirk of
> fate, positioned to help preserve Robert Horton's Pound papers on economics
> and direct them to Tim Redman for study and eventual disposition to a
> library.
>
> Spencer H. MacCallum
> Box 180
> Tonopah, NV 89049
> 775-482-2038 / Fax 5897
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