Thursday, February 28, 2008

How To Gracefully Accept A Gift

The story of the Goethe-penny

"... There, just a politician said:" You have to do something for the authors' authors went on, he often put years of work in a manuscript, without adequate remuneration or even publication related to: Exploitation Similar conditions are that, and the policy must address this problem "Do we know the time how many good novels so unwritten This scandalous waste of creative energy may just we as a nation of culture not afford more All complains that the issue with Germany.?. down. I say, 'Here is the point where we must begin "

The roundtable agreed with him, undwenige days later the government announced a legislative initiative. The most important revision of the planned "author workplace protection law", abbreviated AuArSchG: in future all accounts had a minimum run of 20 000 pieces appear. Although small publishers asked to take into account, they would not even with their overall program to such figures, the bill passed in first reading. "


This very instructive parable about the consequences of well-intentioned State intervention * written by Andreas Eschbach was some time ago in Handelsblatt .


*) For further reading:

Ludwig von Mises: Critique of Interventionism studies on economic policy and economic ideology of our time. "

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