Library Day

Pete Boettke offers some advice to aspiring economists:

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…what internet search and computer search of library catalogues, enables me to do is to find what it is that I already know I want quickly. What it doesn't permit is pure discovery of things that happen when browsing in stacks. The unexpected discovery that results from serendipity.

So my advice to all young aspiring students of economics and the sciences of human action in general --- get in the habit of spending lots of time in the library -- a real physical library not a virtual one -- and browse through the stacks and allow yourself to be surprised at what you might find. Don't do it everyday, but reserve some time a week to read through journals you don't subscribe to and look for new and old books you haven't read and might not be aware exist.

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