I did not hear about Hayek or Mises in my academic career until I took an elective course in "Firm Organization" from the only Austrian leaning professor I encountered in graduate school. I tried to remedy the situation for my undergrads by teaching one lecture on the Socialist Calculation Debate, and doing so I was seen as an "oddball".
However, in "consumer-driven" educational products, particularly in lectures from The Teaching Company, I see individual lectures dedicated to Hayek (and mentioning Mises) all the time, and not just in economics. I am now listening to a lecture series titled "Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition" which dedicates one of its 84 lectures to Hayek.
Why is there a total absence of Hayek in Universities, but such a presence in "consumer-driven" education?
Because state education is not about giving the consumer what he is interested in knowing, but rather what the "intellectual bodyguard" is interested in you knowing.
EinarFridgeirs: Because state education is not about giving the consumer what he is interested in knowing, but rather what the "intellectual bodyguard" is interested in you knowing.
You have a very sad understanding of state education.
I am becoming a Burkean Whig.
- F.A. Hayek
laminustacitus:You have a very sad understanding of state education.
three cheers for constructive criticism.
hip hip, hooray.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
laminustacitus: EinarFridgeirs: Because state education is not about giving the consumer what he is interested in knowing, but rather what the "intellectual bodyguard" is interested in you knowing. You have a very sad understanding of state education.
Enlighten us, please.
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