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Bourbon for Breakfast: 10th Anniversary Edition by [Jeffrey Tucker, Edward Stringham]

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“We all need to be part of the project of reimagining freedom—of living outside the statist quo—else we will go the way of many societies and civilizations before us: host to a massive apparatus of power and imposition that strangles the growth and ingenuity of people, leading to a stasis that hardly anyone notices until it is too late.” ~Jeffrey Tucker

Bourbon for Breakfast, now in its 10th-anniversary edition published by the American Institute for Economic Research, is written in a whimsical way, but Tucker makes some very important points.

He counters the idea that bureaucrats, and the government itself, exist to help people. Tucker presents bureaucrats in a less than pleasing light, but his vision is not bleak. Rather than going on an angry diatribe that depresses the reader, Tucker describes ways to overcome problems that bureaucrats create, however big or small.

Bourbon for Breakfast spans economics, literature, fashion, and the good life in general. Why sit around being depressed about government when we can mock it and work to diminish its influence?

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 22, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Distinguish Senior Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, a research fellow of the RMIT Blockchain Study Group, a columnist at Forbes, Chief Liberty Officer and founder of Liberty.me, Distinguished Honorary Member of Mises Brazil, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of 10 books in 5 languages.

He created the first commercial service of online book distribution that published entirely in the commons (The Laissez Faire Club) and he was an early innovator in online distribution of literature during his tenure as builder and editor of Mises.org from 1996 until 2011, and later directed editorial at fee.org and aier.org. He created the first live classroom in the liberty-oriented ideological space and assembled the official bibliography of famed economic writer Henry Hazlitt, a project that included more than 10,000 entries. Early in his career, following his degree in economics and journalism, he served as research assistant to Ron Paul at his private foundation.

Jeffrey Tucker gave the Franz Čuhel Memorial Lecture at the Prague Conference on Political Economy in 2017, has been a two-time featured guest on John Stossel’s show, interviewed on Glenn Beck’s television show, spoken at Google headquarters, appeared frequently on Huffington Post Live and Russia Today, been the two-time Master of Ceremonies at Libertopia, been featured at FreedomFest and the International Students for Liberty Conference, the featured speaker at Liberty Forum five years, keynoted the Young Americans for Liberty national convention, has spoken at many dozens of colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world including Harvard University and Boston University, has been quoted in the New York Times and Washington Post, appears regularly in Newsweek and many other popular venues, and is in constant demand as a headline speaker at libertarian, technology, and monetary conferences around the world.

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Email: jeffrey.a.tucker@gmail.com

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Always Already

A little dated but still wonderful narrative and lessons learned.

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David D.

Poorly researched, irresponsible and dishonest

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2020

The title of this book - "Bourbon for Breakfast" - should have tipped me off. Although this book pretends that its purpose is to encourage freedom from statist mandates, let's not forget that there is no government mandate against drinking bourbon for breakfast, and that drinking bourbon for breakfast is simply a bad idea (if you want to lead a healthy and productive life).

Sadly, after the horrible title, it is all downhill. The first chapter, "The Bureaucrat in Your Shower," not only irresponsibly encourages people to waste domestic water, the premise for this irresponsibility is a lie. The book states: "The U.S. Geological Survey of the U.S. government reports that all domestic water use ... constitute less than one percent of the total water use."

This is flat out wrong. It took me about three minutes of research to debunk this, as the U.S. Geological Survey's official website states that "The majority of people in the United States used water provided by public suppliers... Self-supplied withdrawals for domestic use were estimated at 3,260 Mgal/d, or about 1 percent of total withdrawals for all uses in 2015, supplying an estimated 42.5 million people. Nearly all (98 percent) of these self-supplied withdrawals were from fresh groundwater sources."

So the 1% statistic cited in this book actually refers to domestic water use that is self supplied from sources such as wells. 99% of water in the USA comes from public suppliers. The U.S. Geological Survey further states that in California, 13% of the water from public sources is consumed by domestic use. In Texas, that figure is 9%. This inconvenient truth completely invalidates the false claim that people who irresponsibly waste domestic water aren't harming their communities.

And that is just the title and the first chapter. Is it surprising that a book that encourages drinking bourbon for breakfast is full of disinformation, lies, and bad advice? No, it is not. This is what we can expect when science deniers preach frivolous indulgence over responsibility. The problem is that this type of disinformation is taken seriously by readers and then repeated to others. If we are ever to repair and improve the current status of our society, this type of dishonest rubbish must be denounced and exposed for what it is.

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