Viewpoints
Opinion

Money Means More Than Dollars

Money Means More Than Dollars
Checkout girl Abby Feick holds "Downtown Dollars," a local business incentive promotion, at the Ben Franklin general store May 10, 2005 in Bowling Green, Ohio. Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
|Updated:
Commentary

I needed to stay overnight in a hotel in a New Jersey town and had no time for shopping. I pulled up the travel app I use by habit. The first option was perfect. The price was zero dollars. Wait, zero? How can I stay in a nice hotel overnight and pay absolutely nothing for it? It turned out to be true. I stayed, paid nothing, and left.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
twitter
Author’s Selected Articles

Litigation Nation

Litigation Nation

The Curbing of the Administrative State

The Curbing of the Administrative State

What Is Democratic Socialism?

What Is Democratic Socialism?

The Case for Being Satisfied

The Case for Being Satisfied
Related Topics