<a href='http://prometheus-unbound.org/podcast/' title='Prometheus Unbound Podcast' ><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="240" height="240" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-300x300.jpg" class="post_image attachment-medium" alt="Prometheus Unbound Podcast" style="float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em;" title="Prometheus Unbound Podcast" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-300x300.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-150x150.jpg 150w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-75x75.jpg 75w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/03/27/pup003-interview-with-jeffrey-tucker/"><img decoding="async" width="400" height="400" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Prometheus Unbound Podcast" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg 400w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-300x300.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-150x150.jpg 150w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-75x75.jpg 75w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/03/27/pup003-interview-with-jeffrey-tucker/"><img decoding="async" width="400" height="400" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Prometheus Unbound Podcast" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg 400w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-300x300.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-150x150.jpg 150w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-75x75.jpg 75w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a> <a class="featured_image_link" href="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/2013/03/27/pup003-interview-with-jeffrey-tucker/"><img decoding="async" width="400" height="400" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Prometheus Unbound Podcast" srcset="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast.jpg 400w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-300x300.jpg 300w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-150x150.jpg 150w, https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/PrometheusUnbound_podcast-75x75.jpg 75w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a> <p>In episode three of the Prometheus Unbound Podcast, Matthew and I have a fantastic interview with the wonderful Jeffrey Tucker, editor of Laissez Faire Books. It's a long one, about an hour and fifteen minutes, and we knew you'd be eager to listen to Jeffrey, so we wasted no time with chit-chat and got right down to business. We covered a number of topics ranging from LFB, intellectual property, and Jeffrey's favorite fiction.</p> <p>We started off by asking Jeffrey Tucker what it's been like working for a commercial publisher and bookseller after having worked for a nonprofit educational institution, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, where he was editorial vice president, for so long.</p> <p>Then we went on to talk about the business model of Laissez Faire Books and the role of the publisher in the digital age as a curator and service provider (curation as a service); the compatibility of open source and business; intellectual property; the nature of competition; how many entrepreneurs and businesses misidentify the source of their profitability and don't understand why people buy their goods or services; how copyright has held back the publishing industry; and markets as institutions of teaching and learning.</p> <p><span id="more-11281"></span></p> <blockquote class="right"><p>&#8220;Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.&#8221;<br /> — Ayn Rand</p></blockquote> <p>We talked about a new book Jeffrey wrote with Doug French (as yet unpublished) titled <em>Who's Going to Stop You</em>, which was inspired by the important role played by Ayn Rand and her fiction in the libertarian movement. It's about what many still need to learn from her — an alternative to the typical libertarian activities of electioneering and bitter diatribes against the state on the one hand and academic-style educational efforts to promote liberty on the other — which is to set a positive example in expanding freedom and personal fulfillment in our own lives and the lives of others. We can't wait to see it.</p> <p>For the last 20-30 minutes, we discussed the power of fiction in presenting abstract ideas, how it grounds and concretizes them in human action. Jeffrey Tucker told us about his favorite works of fiction, four novels by <a class="vt-p" title="Garet Garrett" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garet_Garrett">Garet Garrett</a> (listed below), and some of his future plans for Laissez Faire Books. To our great pleasure, those plans include publishing more out-of-print and original libertarian fiction like Rose Wilder Lane's <em>Young Pioneers</em> and John Hunt's <em>Higher Cause</em>.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="vt-p" href="http://lfb.org/"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4709" title="Jeffrey Tucker Meme" alt="Jeffrey Tucker Meme" src="https://prometheusunbound.gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/jeffrey-tucker-meme-e1332819701450.jpg" width="300" height="199" /></a></p> <h3>Follow Jeffrey Tucker</h3> <ul> <li><a class="vt-p" title="Laissez Faire Books" href="http://lfb.org/"><span style="line-height: 13px;">LFB</span></a></li> <li><a class="vt-p" title="Jeffrey Tucker on Google+" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105904503253937165257">Google+</a></li> <li><a class="vt-p" title="Jeffrey Tucker on Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker"><span style="line-height: 13px;">Twitter</span></a></li> <li><a class="vt-p" title="Jeffrey Tucker on Facebook" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.albert.tucker">Facebook</a></li> <li><a class="vt-p" title="Jeffrey Tucker's Prometheus Unbound Posts" href="http://prometheus-unbound.org/author/jtucker/">On <em>Prometheus Unbound</em></a></li> </ul> <h3>Books Mentioned</h3> <ul> <li><em>Against Intellectual Property</em> by Stephan Kinsella (<a class="vt-p" title="Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Property-LvMI-ebook/dp/B004HO5IQG/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="Against Intellectual Property by Stephan Kinsella (Free PDF)" href="https://mises.org/document/944/Against-Intellectual-Property">Free PDF</a>)</li> <li><em>Against Intellectual Monopoly</em> by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (<a class="vt-p" title="Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Against-Intellectual-Monopoly-ebook/dp/B001E9731A/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine (Free PDF)" href="http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm">Free PDF</a>)</li> <li><em>Atlas Shrugged</em> by Ayn Rand (<a class="vt-p" title="Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Audible)" href="http://prometheus-unbound.org/recommends/atlasshruggedaudible">Audible</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Amazon)" href="http://prometheus-unbound.org/recommends/atlasshruggedamazon">Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>Young Pioneers</em> by Rose Wilder Lane (<a class="vt-p" title="Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane (LFB Edition)" href="http://lfb.org/shop/fiction/young-pioneers/">LFB Edition</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Young-Pioneers-Rose-Wilder-Lane/dp/0064406989/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>The Driver</em> by Garet Garrett (<a class="vt-p" title="The Driver by Garet Garrett (LFB Edition on Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Driver-LFB-ebook/dp/B00BJ8XRD4/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">LFB Edition on Amazon</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="The Driver by Garet Garrett (LvMI Edition on Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Driver-LvMI-ebook/dp/B0037QGM06/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">LvMI Edition on Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>The Cinder Buggy</em> by Garet Garrett (<a class="vt-p" title="The Cinder Buggy by Garet Garrett (LvMI Edition on Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Cinder-Buggy-Fable-ebook/dp/B003ELPNI6/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">LvMI Edition on Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>Satan's Bushel</em> by Garet Garrett (<a class="vt-p" title="Satan's Bushel by Garet Garrett (LvMI Edition on Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Satans-Bushel-LvMI-ebook/dp/B0037QGZ9E/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">LvMI Edition on Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>Harangue</em> by Garet Garrett (<a class="vt-p" title="Harangue by Garet Garrett (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Harangue-Trees-Said-Bramble-Reign/dp/B0012241QE/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>Higher Cause</em> by John Hunt (<a class="vt-p" title="Higher Cause by John Hunt (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/HIGHER-CAUSE-ebook/dp/B00BBOO6VS/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a>)</li> <li><em>A Beautiful Anarchy</em> by Jeffrey Tucker (<a class="vt-p" title="A Beautiful Anarchy by Jeffrey Tucker (LFB Multimedia Ebook)" href="http://lfb.org/shop/ideas-of-liberty/a-beautiful-anarchy/">LFB Multimedia Ebook</a> / <a class="vt-p" title="A Beautiful Anarchy by Jeffrey Tucker (Amazon)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Anarchy-Civilization-Digital-ebook/dp/B0091XZFKW/?tag=prometheusunbound-20">Amazon</a>)</li> </ul>