Sunday, January 15, 2012

“Human Action” - Trends

In a post titled Economic stimulus., Tam brings to our attention what, economically, can be referred to as an economic trend.

I’ve been to gun shows right after the Assault Weapons Ban was enacted, and right after it sunset. I’ve been to gun shows on the eve of “Y2K” and right after the ascension of The Won, when panic-buying was in full swing. The latter show, in January of ‘09, set a benchmark for “crowded” in my experience.

Yesterday’s show was even more crowded than that. The crowd was so dense that bucking the generally anti-clockwise flow of the mob through the show floor made one feel like a salmon trying to swim the wrong way up the rapids in a nature documentary. You’d shuffle a foot or two forward, stand stock-still waiting for an opening in the Cletii, get jostled a half-step backwards, shuffle forwards again… It took a good five or ten minutes to make it across the width of the exhibit hall.

I think some enterprising individual should be selling von Mises “Human Action Pocket Edition” at these shows, right alongside the pocket autos Tam mentions.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/15 at 09:44 AM
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