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John Médaille <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:11:59 -0400
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Steve Kates wrote:

>"The readers of picture magazines and the movie-fans long for the
>picturesque. The operatic pageants of the Fascists and the Nazis and the
>parading of the girl-battalions of the Red army are after their heart.
>It is more fun to listen to the radio speeches of a dictator than to
>study economic treatises. The entrepreneurs and technologists who pave
>the way for economic improvement work in seclusion; their work is not
>suitable to be visualised on the screen."


Life Magazine published a "comic-strip" version 
of "The Road to Serfdom" in the 40's. I can't put 
my hand on it right now, but it did a lot to 
popularize Hayek at a time that his thesis received little academic support.

John C. Médaille

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