How Is It That I Have A Large Bibliography On Many Subjects of Interest to Austro-libertarians?

May 14, 2019

From: E
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2019 7:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Biblio at the ready

Doc Block,

Your responses to questions most always include a bibliography for addition reading/reference. Purely out of curiosity, how do you organize your bibliography for yourself that you can quickly grab the source/link? Excel spreadsheet? Word doc? There’s obviously hundreds if not thousands of references at your fingertips and when reading the specificity of the questions posed to you, one might think “inquirer has found the one topic WB hasn’t ever addressed!”…only to see 20+ references that touch on the topic directly (exact example) and/or indirectly (exact theory). How do you do it?!

Regards, E

Dear E:

Word doc. Thanks for your kind words. The secret of my success in this regard is that I’ve been at it for a long, long time. My first publication was in 1969. That is 50 years ago. I started collecting bibliography then. So, I’ve got a lot of it. Also, I publish a lot. I’ve done almost 600 refereed journal articles, about 25 books, and literally thousands of op eds. And, I add my own material to my reference section. Hence, when people ask me about topics, and the Austro-libertarian perspective on them, I’m usually able to furnish them with lots of reading material.

Best regards,

Walter