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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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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B081X6Z86P
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 22, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4971 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 474 pages
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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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