Scotsman Douglas Calder Mason, writer, speechwriter antiquarian bookseller, and a prolific innovator of free-market policy ideas, died Monday in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Eamonn Butler of the Adam Smith Institute knew him well and has written a nice appreciation here. To read other obituaries, follow the links here.

I never did meet Douglas Mason but in 1968 a friend and I wrote a pamphlet advocating road-pricing as one of a series of free-market tracts that he published during the 1960s when he was involved with the St Andrews University Conservative Association.

Mark Brady - 12/17/2004

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Common Sense - 12/16/2004

I very much appreciate Mark Brady's comments. They would not be duplicated in his absence.