Ep. 18: Austro-Libertarian Themes in Three Prague Authors, Part 3:  JAROSLAV HAŠEK (Roderick Long)
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2020-11-07

In Part 3 of this exclusive! expanded! three-part version of his 2019 Prague lecture, Roderick Long explores Austro-libertarian themes in the writings of Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923). Topics include: the perversities of bureaucratic incentives; the state as a parasite on private crime; the importance of providing every voter with a pocket aquarium; the dangers of displaying, or not displaying, portraits of the Emperor; access to one lavatory as a bribe for permission to reopen another lavatory; electoral campaigns as anarchist street theatre; justice in canine nomenclature; what happens when criminals go on strike; the forgotten economic costs of farting; the ethical, logistical, and grammatical aspects of assassinating Archduke Ferdinand; Roderick’s success and the Soviets’ failure in deciphering Czech signage; and the economic transaction that Roderick conducted with a nun in the men’s room of the Vatican. 

Background photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_skyline_view.jpg 

PowerPoint slides (as PDF): http://praxeology.net/RTL-Prague-authors-REVISED-fbak.pdf


Links to some of Jaroslav Hašek’s works:  

I’ve included default Amazon.com links below, but in many cases the work in question is either out of stock at Amazon or available only at exorbitant prices.  Search around at other iterations of Amazon (e.g. the .ca or co.uk sites), at used.addall.com, or just a general Google search, and you may have more success.  Hodně štěstí!


THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK:
- standard translation, with the traditional illustrations:  https://www.amazon.com/Good-Soldier-Svejk-Fortunes-Classics/dp/0140449914/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- arguably more accurate translation, in 3 volumes, but without the illustrations:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0795B6J1J/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- movie version:  https://www.amazon.com/Good-Soldier-Schweik/dp/B00074CC1E/?tag=praxeologynet-20
- clip from the movie version:  https://youtu.be/BwWexJ72MbI

THE BACHURA SCANDAL AND OTHER STORIES AND SKETCHES:  
https://www.amazon.com/Bachura-Scandal-Other-Stories-Sketches/dp/0946162417/?tag=praxeologynet-20

THE RED COMMISSAR AND OTHER STORIES (contains some “Party for Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of Law” material):  
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Commissar-Including-Further-Adventures/dp/0571260497/?tag=praxeologynet-20

LITTLE STORIES BY A GREAT MASTER (contains some more “Party for Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of Law” material):  
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Stories-Great-Master-Jaroslav/dp/B0000D63F7/?tag=praxeologynet-20

THE TOURIST GUIDE:  26 STORIES:  
https://www.amazon.com/TOURIST-GUIDE-Jaroslav-Hasek/dp/B0018TQSI0/?tag=praxeologynet-20

BEHIND THE LINES:  BUGULMA AND OTHER STORIES:  
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/802463287X/?tag=praxeologynet-20

THE SECRET HISTORY OF MY SOJOURN IN RUSSIA:  
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Sojourn-Russia/dp/1911414666/?tag=praxeologynet-20

DRUNKARD’S TALES FROM OLD PRAGUE:  
https://tinyurl.com/y3nbq24j

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Links to other items mentioned in the discussion:


Cecil Parrott’s JAROSLAV HAŠEK:  A STUDY OF ŠVEJK AND THE SHORT STORIES:  
https://www.amazon.com/Jaroslav-Ha-ek-Stories-European-Authors/dp/0521136776/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Cecil Parrott’s THE BAD BOHEMIAN:  A LIFE OF JAROSLAV HAŠEK:   
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Bohemian-Jaroslav-Creator-Soldier/dp/0571260322/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Bonus:  Zenny Sadloň’s “Švejk:  A Hero For Our Time”:  
https://web.archive.org/web/20050311122043/https://zenny.com/svejk/NCSML.html

Robert Sharples’ Wikipedia page:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sharples_(classicist)

James VanHise’s “Civilian Resistance In Czechoslovakia”:
https://nonviolence3.com/history/czech/

John Keane’s VÁCLAV HAVEL:  A POLITICAL TRAGEDY IN SIX ACTS:  
https://www.amazon.com/Vaclav-Havel-Political-Tragedy-Acts/dp/0465037194/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Karel Čapek’s “On Birds,” in INTIMATE THINGS: 
https://www.amazon.com/Intimate-things-Karel-C%CC%8Capek/dp/B0006EHC7E/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Prague Conference on Political Economy:  
https://www.cevroinstitut.cz/en/article/pcpe-prague-conference-on-political-economy/

The Institute for Humane Studies’ travel grants program:
https://theihs.org/funding/hayekfund/

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