Best way to get a person hooked on Austrian economics?

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Nitroadict replied on Wed, Jul 22 2009 7:13 PM

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asusenior:

Thanks for all your replies. I think I'll try the youtube route with Schiff, Woods, Paul, or Murphy. I think it is paramount, especially in today's times to get people better informed about what's really going on today's precarious situation. They're just too much misinformation, propaganda, and confusion spewed by the media.

The mainstream media isn't the only place / group of people / entities / etc. that are spewing out propaganda, confusion & misinformation. 

Remember: the Internet is an ocean of information 2 feet deep.  It's also not a truck, but keep your BS detector on moderate alert & do practice runs with it daily & you should be fine.

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asusenior replied on Wed, Jul 22 2009 7:31 PM

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<<What sort of a stupid question is "how do you get somebody hooked on Austrian economics?" I hate to tell you this guys, Austrian economics is a science, <<and not a particularly easy one at that. If you want to introduce somebody to Mises, Hayek, Kirzner et al make sure they're interested in economics to begin <<with. Otherwise you're just going to end up with the same libertarian apologists that we have now, only, they're going to call it Austrian economics because <<they think it's a priori.

Ok, I'm not talking about becoming an economics expert. I'm just talking about getting the basics of libertarian economics - something that just scratches the surface. Basic stuff that everyone should know.