Reading, Teaching, and Quoting Mises

Mark Thornton at the Human Action Conference, 2024

05/18/2024 Mark Thornton

“Those first 300 pages are rather difficult. And they’re difficult for a variety of different reasons for both professional economists as well as just regular people. Regular people wonder, what are all these insane criticisms that Mises is spending so much time addressing? And the professional economist wants to know, why doesn’t he get on to regular economics? I’m going to talk about that a little differently here today.”

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Saturday, 18 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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