Who Was O.P. Alford, III?

04/20/2004 Mises Wire Mises.org

Among several named fellowships for summer studies at the Mises Institute are those named for O.P. Alford, III. Here is an article (from March 1996) about his life and work. It had not previously been in the database.

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