It's a Jetsons World

It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes
Author(s)	Jeffrey Tucker
Country	United States
Subject(s)	Economics
Genre(s)	Non-fiction
Publisher	Ludwig von Mises Institute
Publication date	2011
Media type	Print, Digital
Pages	xi, 306 p.
ISBN	9781610161947
OCLC Number	777816959

It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes is a book by author Jeffrey Tucker. The text makes the case that we are surrounded by miracles created in the private sector, particularly in the digital universe, and yet we don't appreciate them enough. Meanwhile, the public sector is systematically wrecking the physical world in sneaky and petty ways that really do matter.

Links

• Resources page at Mises.org (including full text)
  • Preface Scurvy, among Other Problems, Went Away
  • Excerpt The Myth of the Voluntary Military
  • Audiobook read by Stefan Molyneux (YouTube)

• Articles, essays and reviews
  • "It's a Jetson's World" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, January 2002 (republished at LRC here)
  • "The Attempted Militarization of the Jetsons" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, September 2005
  • "Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons" by Jeffrey A. Tucker, March 2011
  • "Let Them Drink Decaf With Their Cake! Incremental Progress and Standards of Living" by Art Carden, December 2011
  • "McDonald's as the Paradigm of Progress " by Jeffrey A. Tucker, June 2011
  • "Can Ideas Be Owned? Jeff Tucker’s It’s a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes" by Stephan Kinsella, June 2011
  • "Private Miracles vs. Public Crimes" (PDF) article list by Jeffrey A. Tucker
  • Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jeffrey Tucker April 2012
  • The Voluntary Life: Author Interview: Jeffrey Tucker on "It's A Jetsons World" March 2012