Even if they're not exactly right on everything (who is?) the Austrian economists and Mises Institute produce more content that's accessible to the general public than anyone else. I don't think it's even close. They do a tremendous job of trying to teach lay people economics and libertarian theory. Your story of back and forth correspon…
Even if they're not exactly right on everything (who is?) the Austrian economists and Mises Institute produce more content that's accessible to the general public than anyone else. I don't think it's even close. They do a tremendous job of trying to teach lay people economics and libertarian theory. Your story of back and forth correspondence with Block is great anecdotal evidence of this as well. If it weren't for them I wouldn't know half of what I do today about economics or libertarianism.
Their ardent defense of free markets that verges on dogmatism doesn't bother me either. I would take a million times more of it to balance out what people normally think and hear. I prefer your approach, to be sure, but I still find what they do incredibly valuable. To call him the biggest jackass is really myopic.
I was banned from commenting at Mises.org for being rude to a 9/11 truther, but it is true that they really were dedicated to making scholarly material freely & easily available. Now with libhub that has been applied to a lot more, but they should still get credit for when they were one of the few sources of economics articles for laymen without any academic affiliation.
Even if they're not exactly right on everything (who is?) the Austrian economists and Mises Institute produce more content that's accessible to the general public than anyone else. I don't think it's even close. They do a tremendous job of trying to teach lay people economics and libertarian theory. Your story of back and forth correspondence with Block is great anecdotal evidence of this as well. If it weren't for them I wouldn't know half of what I do today about economics or libertarianism.
Their ardent defense of free markets that verges on dogmatism doesn't bother me either. I would take a million times more of it to balance out what people normally think and hear. I prefer your approach, to be sure, but I still find what they do incredibly valuable. To call him the biggest jackass is really myopic.
I was banned from commenting at Mises.org for being rude to a 9/11 truther, but it is true that they really were dedicated to making scholarly material freely & easily available. Now with libhub that has been applied to a lot more, but they should still get credit for when they were one of the few sources of economics articles for laymen without any academic affiliation.