More from Stephan Kinsella here and here, and another reply from Kevin Carson here.
It’s frustrating not to be able to jump in here yet (especially since Stephan’s and Peter Klein’s interpretations of my position have grown increasingly strange, and I want to grouse about it in detail) but I’m surrounded by stacks of term papers and final exams right now ….
If I’d known how many more parts there’d be I wouldn’t have started the damn Latin titles. In any case, my last post should’ve been Pars Septima, not Pars Septa. Argh! Oh well.
Wait, this post has an actual topic: Shawn Wilbur weighs in on whether big chain bookstores benefit from state intervention. (Spoiler alert: yes.)
More from me on the conflation debate anon.
Kevin Carson offers an excellent, lengthy reply to some of the critical commentary on my Cato Unbound piece.
More from me L8R.
My final contribution (a brief and hopefully eirenic valediction) to the Cato-sponsored portion of the discussion is up at Cato Unbound.
In other news, Peter Klein has responded to my earlier response, and P. M. Lawrence has counter-responded. I’ll have more to say anon.
The Catofest is winding down (though I still hope to hear a peep from Matt Yglesias ere darkness falls). Dean Baker replies to me, and the Cato editors have rounded up a “best of the blogs” featuring Wirkman Virkkala, Sheldon Richman, Charles Johnson, and others. I plan to reply to some of the blogs, though probably not as part of the Cato Unbound conversation.
Now up at Cato Unbound: my latest response to Yglesias and Baker, Horwitz’s latest response to Yglesias, and most recently my response to Peter Klein, Will Wilkinson, and J. H. Huebert and Walter Block.
Charles Johnson also has a reply to Walter and Huebert up; I sent in my response before I saw Charles’s, but we ended up making similar points.
I hope Yglesias responds before things wind up; he’s only spoken twice so far.