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$bio: Mark Thornton [send him mail] is a senior resident fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and is the book review editor for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is the author of The Economics of Prohibition, coauthor of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War, and the editor of The Quotable Mises, The Bastiat Collection, and An Essay on Economic Theory. He has written about government intervention in the movie industries. He has also reviewed Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and previewed Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also reviewed Bourne Ultimatum.

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Mark Thornton [send him mail] is a senior resident fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, and is the book review editor for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. He is the author of The Economics of Prohibition, coauthor of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War, and the editor of The Quotable Mises, The Bastiat Collection, and An Essay on Economic Theory. He has written about government intervention in the movie industries. He has also reviewed Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and previewed Star Wars: The Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also reviewed Bourne Ultimatum.