I LOVE Rothbard's lectures. Murphy is hilarious. Woods is an amazing public speaker. Rockwell is an exquisite writer. Tucker's writing is a delight. Hoppe can be really funny. Roger Garrison actually killed (in the comedic sense) at the last Mises U (although listening to the podcast, it's kind of hard to catch some of the humor which was based on his slideshow, but the audience was loving it). I like Jim Fedako's writing. Milton Friedman, for all his faults, was an effective speaker. Gary North is a good speaker. And Art Carden is a good lecturer.
I just wish there was an Austrian with the on-stage eloquence of Richard Dawkins. Then, we could all go home, because the game would be in the bag.
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Peter Klein.
John V. Denson, although he's an historian
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Bastiat is the most charismatic I know of. His writing is very persuasive.
Hazlitt is also a very easy read for laymen.
Mises is not charismatic at all, but nevertheless, his writings are by far my favorite because of their robustness and depth.
baxter:Mises is not charismatic at all, but nevertheless, his writings are by far my favorite because of their robustness and depth.
Reading Mises is a one-of-a-kind experience. While reading him, you feel you're becoming so cultivated. It seems as if he so meticulously pondered every single word he scribed. He tackles subjects in every field of knowledge and effortlessly demolishes what is unsound in all of them. He not only comes off as the most advanced of economists, but the most erudite of philosophers.
Le Master:Reading Mises is a one-of-a-kind experience. While reading him, you feel you're becoming so cultivated. It seems as if he so meticulously pondered every single word he scribed. He tackles subjects in every field of knowledge and effortlessly demolishes what is unsound in all of them. He not only comes off as the most advanced of economists, but the most erudite of philosophers.
I totally agree. Human Action is more discursive than Man, Economy, and State, but I actually love that about it (although I'm glad MES is structured the way it is, because the Austrian school needed a more exhaustive and systematic treatise). Reading Human Action is like swimming in an ocean of wisdom.
Jonathan M. F. Catalán:I've only read one of his books (the only one I know of; Free Banking) and it was kind of technical, but besides that it was a very well written book and easy to read.
Watch his Anti-Capitalists Barbarians at the Gate presentation on mises.org. It is entertaining and very lucid.
As far as Woods contacting his publisher, there are some things that the libertarian elite do that I don't agree with. Sometimes I don't like that some folks feel the answer to criticism is to complain in private (or threaten legal action), instead of confronting the critique publicly in one of the many prominent venues open to us. I feel men of high character like Mises might have pursued the latter than the former.
It is important to remember that our heroes are still human.
If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North
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