Franc echoes fifth sentence meme, by way of bkmarcus at lowercaseliberty.

Grab the nearest book.

1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

Don’t search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

Here goes:

The protectionist asks: What under free trade will be the fate of a country in which the conditions for any kind of production are less favorable than in all other countries?

No, I did not go searching for the coolest book I could find. Yes, “Human Action” was the closest book at hand, followed by deSoto’s “The Mystery of Capital”, Friedman’s “The World is Flat”, Bastiat’s “Fallacies” and Hayek’s “Serfdom”. What can I say? I like to keep the good books within my reach.