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 > <[log in to unmask]>