Even I don’t think von Mises was all wrong, or even a crank necessarily. I do find it interesting that Austrians use little or no data. And that they are dismissed by majority of economists, conservative and liberal.
I went to a lot of sites reading up on them before I posted this. Rothbard is really a koo-koo. Did you read his pro-abortion argument or his child rearing issues?
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I don’t read Rothbard.
I do read Hayek and Von Mises and I find myself an admirer of both of them.
Its unfortunate that Rockwell has become the face of Von Mises.
I will say that my admiration of Hayek is based on his political work, not his economic. I of course read his “Serfdom” way back, but I mainly liked “Constitution of Liberty” which I read a couple of times. In scanning through it the other day, it occurred to me it might be about time to read through it again.
The use of “no” data and the “gold standard” surprised me.